5K Walk & Festival at the Angus Barn

What the Walk Is

For 37 years, the Walk for Hope has united thousands at the Angus Barn to take a stand against mental illness. Together, we’ve raised millions to fund groundbreaking research and advance treatments for conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, postpartum depression, schizophrenia, and anorexia.

Our mission is simple and bold: to conquer mental illness. Every step you take shows solidarity with those affected and brings us closer to hope and healing.

100% of all money raised by participants directly funds critical mental illness research!

Your Walk for Hope Registration Includes:

• 👟 5K Walk, 1-Mile Nature Loop, or just enjoy the festival
• 👕 2025 Walk for Hope T-shirt
• 🍔 Hot breakfast items & Angus Barn lunch
• 🍦 Two Roosters Ice Cream, Pepsi Beverages, and more
• 🎶 Live music from the Band of Oz
• 🛝 Family festival with activities for all ages
• 🏅 Entry into prize drawings & giveaways
• 💙 The chance to fund life-changing mental illness research

Pricing

• Adult: $80 ($85 on event day)
• Youth 6–18 / Full-time Students: $35 ($40 on event day)
• Children 5 and under are FREE!

Walk Day Schedule

• 7:00 AM: Registration and parking open (be parked by 7:30 AM to catch a bus to the Barn!) with breakfast and coffee available
• 8:00 AM: Vendor tables and kids’ activities start
• 9:00 AM: WALK TAKES OFF (NEW START TIME!)
• 10:00 AM: Band of Oz, lunch, and festival activities start
• 11:30 AM: Prize announcements
• 2:30 PM: Festival ends and last bus departs the Barn to Parking Lots

Parking, Shuttles, & Drop-Off

• Shuttle service runs continuously between parking lots and the Angus Barn from 7:00am – 2:30pm (last bus departs the Angus Barn at 2:30pm).
• Two parking areas with shuttle service:
  - 8051 Arco Corporate Drive | Click here to see map
  - RDU Park & Ride Lot 5 (Commerce Blvd) | Click here to see map

Designated Rideshare / Drop-Off Lot

• 9521 Lumley Rd | Click here to see map (see blue star on the map above)
• Easy walk to the Angus Barn
• NO PARKING at the Rideshare / Drop-Off Lot
• NO DROP-OFFS at the Angus Barn

Need to Know Info!

• New this year: Walk takes off at 9am! Registration and shuttle service begin at 7am.
• We expect over 4,000 people this year, so we strongly recommend arriving by 7:30am for parking and shuttle service to the Angus Barn!
• Pick up your t-shirts and armbands during early check-in days at the Angus Barn to save time (look for the Silver Airstream in the parking lot):
  - Thursday, October 9: 12pm – 6pm
  - Friday, October 10: 10am – 6pm
  - Saturday, October 11: 10am – 6pm
• Please leave all pets at home. Only certified service animals are allowed.
• And most importantly—get ready to have fun, fund research, and celebrate hope with us!

About the Walk

In the 37 years since it began, our flagship charity event has helped raise millions of dollars towards better understanding and treatments of mental illnesses like depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, postpartum depression, schizophrenia, and anorexia.

Each year, thousands of participants come together at the Angus Barn in Raleigh to walk a 5K route to show solidarity for family, friends, and community members living with a mental illness. After the walk is over, we celebrate our achievement with a family-friendly afternoon of food, games, music, and prizes.

Can’t make it this year, or prefer to walk with us from afar? You can still make an impact by joining us VIRTUALLY instead or making a DONATION! It’s more important than ever to support mental illness research right here in the Triangle.

100% of the money raised by participants directly funds local mental illness research at the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry. And, just as critically, it helps call attention to the stigma and significance of these often invisible illnesses, which now due to the pandemic affect 1 in 3 American adults. 

Your passion helps us touch more and more lives in our community, across our nation, and around the world. Your dedication leads us to record-breaking goals in numbers and funds raised. We believe research is hope, and hope keeps us moving forward.

Join us to make this year’s Walk the biggest ever! Together we can go further and do more than ever before.