The gate opened at 6:30 a.m.
St. Jude Walk Miami ran on Saturday, 26 September 2026 at the Miami-Dade County Fair & Expo Center, 10901 SW 24th Street, Miami, FL 33165.
The event page publishes three times. The site opens at 6:30 a.m. The opening ceremony starts at 7:30 a.m. The walk starts at 8:00 a.m.
Registration for that edition has closed and the donation page stays open. The page carries one dated edition and no later date.
Working back from 8 a.m.
A family that wants a place at the start line works backwards from 8:00 a.m. through two allowances of its own. The first covers the walk from the car to the line, set here at 30 minutes. The second covers the gate and the drive to a space inside, set at 20 minutes.
Both figures are this desk's. The event publishes no gate count, no lot count and no walking distance from any lot.
Off the 7:30 a.m. ceremony, those two allowances put the family at the entrance at 6:40 a.m. Off 8:00 a.m. alone, they put it there at 7:10 a.m.
Four drive times
OpenStreetMap road routing gives 8.70 miles and 20.5 minutes from Miami International Airport to the grounds. The straight-line distance is 6.06 miles, or 9.76 kilometres. The engine models free-flow conditions, so a family sets its own traffic allowance on top.
Comfort Suites Miami Kendall, 3901 Southwest 117th Avenue, sits 1.40 miles out on a straight line. The routed drive is 2.56 miles and 6.9 minutes.
Courtyard Miami at Dolphin Mall sits 2.42 miles out, 3.36 miles and 9.0 minutes by road. DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Doral, 10250 Northwest 19th Street, sits 2.82 miles out, 3.52 miles and 9.0 minutes by road. NUVO Suites Hotel, 1750 Northwest 107th Avenue, sits 2.76 miles out, 3.05 miles and 7.9 minutes by road.
Take the two allowances and the drive off 7:30 a.m. and the leave times fall out. Kendall 6:33 a.m. NUVO Suites 6:32 a.m. Dolphin Mall 6:31 a.m. Doral 6:31 a.m. An airport property on the 20.5-minute drive leaves at 6:19 a.m.
Five entrances, two on Coral Way
The venue's directions page lists five vehicle entrances: SW 112th Avenue and Coral Way, SW 114th Avenue and Coral Way, SW 22nd Street and 117th Avenue, SW 21st Street and 117th Avenue, and SW 107th Avenue and SW 17th Street.
Rideshare drop-off and pick-up sits at Coral Way and 112th Avenue. The handicap drop-off sits in front of the main entrance.
The page then limits the list. Those entrances and points are "only applicable for the annual Youth Fair and may not apply to Fair Expo Center events throughout the year." The walk sits on the venue's grounds outside the Youth Fair, so the caveat covers it. A family that drives to Coral Way and 112th Avenue confirms the open gate with the venue before the date. The venue's published line is 305.223.7060.
The parking map carries a 2024 stamp
The directions page links a parking map titled "Youth Fair Parking Map." It marks tram stations T1 through T4, preferred parking, handicapped parking and the five vehicle entrances. The main entrance sits at 112th Avenue and Coral Way, and the file path carries a 2024 stamp.
The venue's pages carry no parking fee and no lot opening time.
The site covers 86 acres
The rental page puts the site at 86 acres. The grounds page puts it at 80 acres with 400 recreational vehicle hookups, 22 acres of asphalt, permanent overhead lighting, restrooms and showers.
That is the surface a family crosses between a gate and a start line. The walk's page carries no route and no course map, so the 30-minute walking allowance is a number the family sets.
The venue's rental page runs from a small seminar for 50 to a festival with 50,000 visitors, and lists more than 70 events a year outside the Youth Fair.
2,598 people on one morning
The walk closed with 2,598 registered participants in 261 teams, which is 9.95 per team. The organiser publishes no gate count, so a family that arrives at 6:30 a.m. joins a queue of a size nobody has published.
The venue's Main Entrance Building holds 28 enclosed ticket windows across two floors, with a kitchen area, elevator access and nearby parking.
What to settle before booking
Three published facts set the trip: the date, 26 September 2026; the start, 8:00 a.m.; and the address, 10901 SW 24th Street.
The event publishes no shuttle, no room block and no hotel list. A family picks the property on drive time and confirms the gate on the day.
The schedule ends at the 8:00 a.m. start. No finish time is published, so a departure flight booked against the walk carries that gap.
A family that gives up the car keeps one published point: rideshare drop-off and pick-up at Coral Way and 112th Avenue, under the same Youth Fair caveat.
The venue states that it is "not affiliated, nor does it endorse, any activity on its fairgrounds when licensing the use of its fairgrounds to a third entity."