January 1 — New Year's Day
January 10 — Free Docent Tour led by Sandra Rauch, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
January 19 — Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 24 — Free Docent Tour led by Dennis Evanosky, 10am, East Bay Pioneers at Mountain View. We'll start with town founders: Moses Chase and the Patten Brothers who established the town of Clinton; Edson Adams of Oakland, Joseph Emery of Emeryville and Noah Norton of Nortonville. We will also meet early Mayors, sheriffs and railroad builders.
January 26 — Chinese New Year (Year of the Ox)

February 14 — Free Docent Tour led by Chris Pattillo, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
February 14 — Valentine's Day
February 16 — President's Day
February 28 — Free Docent Tour led by Gaye Lenahan, 10am, Special Black History Month Tour. Visit the gravesites and hear the stories of some African American community leaders and residents who lived that history.

March 14 — Free Docent Tour led by Mike Foster, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
March 17 — St. Patrick's Day
March 28 — Free Docent Tour led by Silvia Lange, 10am, Restless Women at Rest At Last. For women's history month, honor Julia Morgan, Architect; Caroline Livermore, Conservationist; Chan Shee Ah Tye, Matriarch; Sara Lemmon, Botanist; Ina Coolbrith, Oakland Librarian and Poet; and many others.
March 27–29 — Tower Chapel Tulip Exhibition, 10am – 4pm
March 28–29 — Ching Ming Festival

April — Tulip Extravaganza
April 4 — Ching Ming / Remembrance of Ancestors Day
April 11 — Free Docent Tour led by Joyce Temby, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
April 12 — Easter
April 25 — Free Docent Tour led by Chris Pattillo and Mike Foster, 10am, The Trees of Mountain View. This tour features a look at some of the Cemetery's oldest specimens and the very recent plantings and will cover myths and folklore of trees as well as tree characteristics.

May 9 —Free Docent Tour led by Aldus Brucelas, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
May 10 — Mother's Day
May 25 — 88th Annual Memorial Day Commemoration, 10am
May 25 — Memorial Day Civil War plot tour led by Dennis Evanosky, 11:30am, The Memorial Day tour honors veterans who rest at Mountain View. Meet Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, "drummer boy" Annie Glud and the man behind the custom of standing for the Star Spangled Banner. The tour includes the restored Grand Army of the Republic Plot.
May 30 — No tour this Saturday; instead join us for a special Memorial Day Tour immediately following the 88th Annual Memorial Day Commemoration.

June 13 — Free Docent Tour led by Ron Bachman, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
June 21 — Father's Day
June 27 — Free Docent Tour led by Barbara Smith and Ron Bachman, 10am, History of the University of California. The histories of Mountain View and UC Berkeley are intertwined from the beginning of both institutions. Meet the men who lived out their dream of founding a great university in the raw new state of California on a tour led by Old Blue and Docent Program founder Barbara Smith.

July 4 — Independence Day
July 11 — Free Docent Tour led by Dennis Evanosky, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
July 12 — Oakland Heritage Alliance's annual walking tour, 10am
July 25 — Free Docent Tour led by Silvia Lange, 10am, Labor and Management. This tour honors both ends of the working Continuum; visit and hear the stories of Vincent St. John, early leader of the Wobblies; women who dared do a man's job; Charles Crocker and the Chinese railroad workers; and Henry Kaiser, visionary industrialist.

August 8 — Free Docent Tour led by Carolyn Kemp, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
August 22 — Free Docent Tour led by Carolyn Kemp and Joyce Temby, 10am, Noted, Notable and Notorious. Visit the resting place of some of Oakland's more colorful characters. This lively tour Includes stories of gossip, romance, murder and scandal that are all a part of Oakland and Bay Area history.

September 7 — Labor Day
September 12 — Free Docent Tour led by Sandra Rauch, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
September 26 — Free Docent Tour led by Aldus Brucelas and Stafford Buckley, 10am, Innovators in the Arts and Sciences. Known for innovations in the arts and sciences, the Bay Area is and has been home to influential artists, architects, musicians and scientists. Visit the graves and learn more about the individuals who have made meaningful contributions in each of these areas.

October 10 — Free Docent Tour led by Dennis Evanosky, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
October 24 — Free Docent Tour led by Mike Foster and Stafford Buckley, 10am, Piedmont at Mountain View. Come see the original Blair's Park and meet Walter Blair who rowed across the Bay to buy 600 acres of Piedmont. Meet Piedmont's "Lady Doctor," the Requas of "The Highlands," Tribune publisher J.R. Knowland and his son "the Senator from Formosa," along with a host of other early denizens of the Hill City.
October 31 — Halloween
4th Annual Pumpkin Festival, Noon – 3pm

November 11 — Veterans Day
November 14 — Free Docent Tour led by Stafford Buckley, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
November 26 — Thanskgiving
November 28 — Free Docent Tour led by Sandra Rauch , 10am, Symbolism in the Cemetery. Walk among cemetery headstones to take a closer look at the symbols of religions, clubs and fraternal organizations with which so many of them are marked. Learn the meaning of these symbols and find out how the various treatments of urns, flowers and animals and other imagery are used to impart layers of meaning to the gravesites.

December 1 – 31 — Holiday Circle of Lights
December 12 — Free Docent Tour led by Ron Bachman, 10am, Exploring Mountain View Cemetery: An Overview Tour
December 25 — Christmas
December 26 — Free Docent Tour led by Gaye Lenahan, Stafford Buckley, and Dennis Evanosky, with Michael Colbruno, 10am, Mountain View from the Beginning. December 26, 1863 was the day on which the founders of Mountain View Cemetery held their first meeting, at the home of Dr. Samuel Merritt. Join these Mountain View historians to learn more about the citizens who met to organize Oakland's third cemetery, situated so far from downtown that the city could never reach it.