Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Memorial park and cemetery in Palo Alto, United States.

Alta Mesa Memorial Park is a cemetery in Palo Alto offering traditional burial plots, a mausoleum, and a columbarium across its grounds. The facility provides different options for memorials and serves families throughout the area.

The cemetery was established in 1904 and has become a central burial location for the community. Over more than a century, it has served families through different periods of the region's growth.

Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, the Grateful Dead's founding keyboardist and vocalist, is buried here; his bronze marker, set flush with the ground, bears the dates 1945 and 1972 and the line "Pigpen was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead." Fans leave small offerings on it, among them a pocketknife, a coin, a stone and a shell. Steve Jobs lies in an unmarked grave.

Visitors can explore graves and paths on the grounds independently, and the administrative office provides assistance in locating specific burial sites. It is helpful to obtain a map in advance or ask for directions to navigate the grounds easily.

Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, the Grateful Dead's founding keyboardist and vocalist, lies under a flat bronze marker inscribed "Pigpen was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead." Visitors leave a pocketknife, coins, a stone and a shell on the plaque, and a skull-and-lightning-bolt emblem is engraved in its lower right corner. The marker gives 1945 and 1972, while the burial list records his death in 1973.