Document and Entity Information - shares	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2016	Aug. 01, 2016
Document Information [Line Items]
Document Type	10-Q/A
Amendment Flag	true
Amendment Description	We are filing this Amendment No. 1 to our quarterly report on Form 10-Q (“Form 10-Q/A”) for the period ended June 30, 2016 which was originally filed on August 5, 2016 (“Original Filing”), to restate the Partnership’s consolidated financial statements as of June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015 and for both the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015, as well as the related notes included in the Original Filing (“Restatement”). This Form 10-Q/A contains only Item 1 (Financial Statements), Item 2 (Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations), Item 4 (Controls and Procedures) of Part I and Item 6 (Exhibits) of Part II , and items including information not affected by the Restatement have not been repeated in this Form 10-Q/A. The Restatement corrects accounting errors related to: 1) The allocation of net loss to the General Partner and the limited partners for the purposes of determining the general partner’s and limited partners’ capital accounts presented within “Partners’ capital,” and the corresponding effect on “net loss per limited partner unit (basic and diluted)” for each of the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015; 2) The presentation of certain components of “Cemetery property”, “Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation”, “Deferred cemetery revenues, net”, “Merchandise liability”, “Accounts payable and accrued liabilities” and “Common limited partners’ interest” as of June 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015; 3) The presentation of “Cemetery merchandise revenues”, Cemetery service revenues”, and “Cost of goods sold” related to assumed performance obligations from acquisitions for each of the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015; 4) The recording of incorrect amounts of investment revenues and expenses related to merchandise and perpetual care trusts on the consolidated statement of operations and the incorrect tracking of perpetual care-trusting obligations on the consolidated balance sheets; 5) The recognition of incorrect amounts of revenue from deferred pre-acquisition contracts in the consolidated statements of operations based on inaccurate system inputs; 6) Other adjustments principally relating to the recognition, accuracy and/or classification of certain amounts in “Deferred cemetery revenues, net”, “Merchandise liabilities”, and “Other current assets”; and 7) The corresponding effect of the foregoing accounting errors on the Partnership’s income tax accounts, consolidated statement of partners’ capital, consolidated statement of cash flows, and the related notes thereto, disclosed in the Partnership’s consolidated financial statements as of June 30, 2016 and 2015 and for each of the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 included in “Item 1 – Financial Statements (unaudited)” to this Form 10-Q/A. Note 2, Restatement of Previously Issued Consolidated Financial Statements, in the Partnership’s consolidated financial statements included in Item 1 provides further information regarding the Restatement. “Item 4 – Controls and Procedures” to this Form 10-Q/A discloses the material weaknesses in the Partnership’s internal controls associated with the Restatement, as well as management’s conclusion that the Partnership’s internal controls over financial reporting were not effective as of December 31, 2015 and June 30, 2016. As disclosed therein, management is currently evaluating the changes needed in the Partnership’s internal controls over financial reporting to remediate these material weaknesses. This Form 10-Q/A does not reflect events occurring after the filing of the Original Filing and does not substantively modify or update the disclosures therein other than as required to reflect the adjustments described above and to state our current address of principal executive offices on the cover page of Form 10-Q/A. See Note 2 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements, set forth in Item 1 of this Form 10-Q/A, for additional information. We are also filing currently dated certifications from our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer as Exhibits 31.1, 31.2, 32.1, and 32.2 to this Form 10-Q/A. Unless the context otherwise requires, references to “we,” “us,” “our,” “StoneMor,” the “Company,” or the “Partnership” are to StoneMor Partners L.P. and its subsidiaries.
Document Period End Date	Jun. 30, 2016
Document Fiscal Year Focus	2016
Document Fiscal Period Focus	Q2
Trading Symbol	STON
Entity Registrant Name	STONEMOR PARTNERS LP
Entity Central Index Key	0001286131
Current Fiscal Year End Date	--12-31
Entity Filer Category	Large Accelerated Filer
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding		35,439,047