Ten years ago the Northern Colorado Down Syndrome Association started a walk. On Saturday, Oct. 3, the 10th annual NoCo Down Syndrome Walk fills Boardwalk Park in Windsor from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the association’s primary annual fundraiser and, since it lands at the start of Down Syndrome Awareness Month, its biggest public moment of the year. A week out, the walk’s pledge page showed $90,483 raised toward a $115,000 goal.
The association says it now serves hundreds of people across the region through advocacy, awareness, support and relationship-building, and it frames the walk’s purpose plainly on the pledge page: to bring people together by creating community for people with Down syndrome, their families and the people who love them, to build awareness around the value of belonging, and to raise financial support for the association’s work. Its own shorthand for all of that: stronger together.
How to show up
- Walk details and registration are on the association’s walk page; pledges go through its PledgeIt page.
- Saturday, Oct. 3, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Boardwalk Park, Windsor. We have listed it as an event too.
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Sources: NCDSA walk page, the walk’s PledgeIt page and North Forty News. Verified Sept. 28, 2026.
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