Mission Statement

MISSION: LIFETIME ENJOYMENT

The Elmhurst Park District exists to provide opportunities for the enjoyment of residents and visitors, particularly those opportunities that people cannot supply for themselves.

Personal Benefits:

Provide benefits which can enhance the enjoyment, health, or self-esteem of an individual.

• Create opportunities for everyone for fun, play, entertainment and socialization by providing fair and balanced facilities and activities.
• Teach skills for, and encourage, wide and varied use of leisure time.
• Facilitate each person's health and fitness.
• Kindle each person's self-esteem through recreation.

Community Benefits:

Provide social or community benefits which protect and improve the physical environment and the social environment.

• Protect and improve the natural environment.
• Create beauty wherever possible
• Influence urban form and the built environment.
• Develop our parks and programs to be a source of, and foundation for, community pride.
• Build strong families and strong communities.