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  You can view the Mission Cemetery from the adjacent business park parking lot. It isn't at the San Juan Capistrano Mission. It is kind of behind the gas station.

  Added July 05, 2017 by Kim Bengard
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  This cemetery is not accessible to the public. However, you can see some of it from the adjacent parking lot. Lots of history here.

  Added June 26, 2017 by Charles Aquino
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  If you could throw a stone from the front porch of the Forester Mansion, located on the Old Ortega Highway, it would land smack on the Old Mission Cemetery. This is a secret, locked-up graveyard, that holds the souls and remains of many early settlers of the City of San Juan Capistrano. Many of the deceased died young, due to smallpox and other ailments. The occasional grave holds people who may have been shot and killed, and the rarest grave is someone who died of old age. SJC used to be a rowdy town, and the cemetery filled fast. Now, it's locked behind some iron gates, but you can easily spot it from the parking lot of these old office buildings, off of Rancho Viejo Road. WHY do they keep the old cemetery locked up all the time? Why can't relatives of the deceased be allowed to visit those old graves, and weep with their loved ones who left this world? IT makes no sense to me. The old trees are beautiful and the weeping willows still weep with green tears for those dearly departed in this old, abandoned graveyard.
  Don't visit alone!!!

  Added May 17, 2017 by Mary Franta