

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Best Buddies Friendship Walk: Lake County
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 09:00 am (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: The Best Buddies Friendship Walk is the leading event in the country supporting inclusion for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Join more than 50,000 participants at 80 events across the globe to support the Best Buddies programs in schools, workplaces, and communities. You’ll be making the world more welcoming to people with IDD — one friendship, one job, and one life-changing connection at a time.

Register online at bestbuddiesfriendshipwalk.org/lakecounty.

Schedule
May 9, 2026
Check-in: 9:00 AM
Opening Ceremonies: 10:15 AM
Walk: 10:30 AM
Celebrate Until: 1:00 PM
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/crown-point/best-buddies-friendship-walk-lake-county/200029725854006
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 36

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.bestbuddiesfriendshipwalk.org/lakecounty/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=crown+point-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Crown Point
- **state**: IN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Lake County Fairgrounds
- **lat**: 41.401935023715
- **long**: -87.370747681156
- **full address**: Lake County Fairgrounds, 889 S Court St,Crown Point, Indiana, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Best Buddies Indiana (https://allevents.in/org/best-buddies-indiana/3501264)

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: banner
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- **Alt text**: thumbnail
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/e6d52ce92ca0094b9d63a205b7b551502faa83546abf8e7279f551773087961b-rimg-w300-h300-dc5d468f-gmir?v=1774053250

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 09:00 am (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Lake County Fairgrounds, 889 S Court St,Crown Point, Indiana, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Best Buddies Indiana
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Best Buddies Friendship Walk: Lake County ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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