Walk to End Lupus Now

media release: The 12th annual Walk to End Lupus Now – Madison is back at Firemen’s Park in 2025! Join hundreds of local lupus warriors and their supporters for a morning of music, community, and lupus awareness benefiting the nearly 30,000 people in Wisconsin suffering from lupus. Funds raised for this event support lupus research, education, resources, and support. Join the members of your community who realize the urgency to find a cure for this debilitating disease. Visit lupuswi.org for registration and information.

Walk Day Schedule:

Saturday, September 13, 2025

• 8:30 AM: Event day registration and pre-registration check-in opens, the Children's Art Tent/face painting tent opens, the Decoration Station tent is open to decorate team signs (we provide team signs for those teams with 4 or more pre-registered - deadline is Monday, September 11th at Noon)
• 9:00 AM: Dimensions in Sound (big band music) starts & Middleton HS Dancers perform
• 9:40 AM: The kick-off ceremony & awards
• 10:00 AM: Walk begins. We will announce each team one by one, so we get a photo at the start line. Individuals (not on a team will be announced as a group)
• We will have a Lupus Information Tent with our Health Education Coordinator there for questions.
• 11:30: 50/50 raffle drawing 
• 12-12:30: The band and activities will wrap up 

This year's route:

The walk route has 1, 2 or 3 mile options. At the ½ mile mark (water station) participants can do a u-turn if they want to complete 1 mile, same at the 1-mile mark (water station/portable toilet) – participants can U-turn to complete a 2-mile walk, and at the 1 ½ mile mark (water station/portable toilet) they U-turn to complete a 3-mile walk. Most of the walk is on the Pheasant Branch Conservancy Trail. This was our original walk route (not what we have used the past few years). Construction is finished on the trails.