Wesley G. Usher Memorial Park

Usher park is one of my favorite parks to just take it easy. Great park located on Irving Park road in Itasca, Illinois to go for a nice quiet break from work or read your favorite book, meditate by a beautiful pond and visit the white Swans that live and are cared for by the park district. A perfect place to bring a friend for a capachino sit on the soft well kept grass, or bring a date for romantic walk and bring a picnic blanket and sit near the pond to see the swans and ducks. Buy some food from the shops that are within arms reach that are next to the park like Starbucks for an espresso or bring a snack or sit down and have some lunch or dinner from Itasca's five star full service restaurant/bars in the area just walking distance from the park. Not a sports or recreational park so you can just enjoy a nice quiet break. Surrounding the park are many historical homes, churches, shop's, the Itasca Fitness and recreational center. The train station is just across the street from the park. Just outside the parks west entrance is a small shopping center with another one of Itasca's excellent Romantic restaurants, there is a paved walking trail that takes you to the wonderful nature center located in a beautiful large park that has hiking trails that lead to other trails, that take you to the main entrance to the large part of the Nature center's forest preserve to a unique wooden bridge that splits up into different areas of the park. Take one trail and it takes you to the Nature center's visitors center and small bird zoo. Take another trail that goes into the forest with a surprisingly long walking wooden bridge that stretches across the beautiful marsh and after the bridge the natural trail will take you to the Apple orchard and just keep walking and you will pass the back of the the police and the Fire department. Then keep walking and you will arrive at crossroad that splits up in two different directions one way the trail ends at the water park located behind the Itasca Public library, The Historic train depot museum, and on the other side of library is the Itasca Fire Department, Police Dept, and the Town Hall on Irving Park road and if you continue west on Irving Park road you will see the Holiday Inn Hotel, and past the hotel is a small strip mall then the Post office, Gas Stations, and more restaurants, Rollwing Road /hwy 53 south.

Nice area. We went to a food truck event here, it was very nice family friendly area.

Very spacious, clean place, for the whole family

This park is great, only the City of Itasca can contemplate it. Incredible to meditate, recreate, marry and take infinities of photos.