Getting around Cody, Duluth, Minnesota
Part of the Cody neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Cody is a car neighborhood with one good walk in it.
Drive times run about fourteen minutes to downtown, twelve to the Miller Hill corridor, fifteen to the airport and fifteen to Superior. Grand Avenue below carries the west-side arterial traffic and connects to Interstate 35 through West Duluth. Nothing from here is far, and the Miller Hill and airport runs are shorter than from most of the city.
The good walk is downhill to the Spirit Valley strip, which from a fair share of the neighborhood is genuinely walkable. It is the return leg that decides whether you do it regularly, because it is uphill with groceries.
Transit runs the Grand Avenue corridor below and needs confirming after the 2023 DTA redesign.
Cycling is recreational rather than practical. The trail access on both sides is excellent, but the neighborhood's own streets are sloped and the useful destinations are downhill, which makes every return trip a climb.
Winter driving is moderate by Duluth standards, which is worth something. Duluth averages 90.2 inches of snow a season on the 1991 to 2020 normals (NWS Duluth, accessed 2026-08-13), and the west end generally sees less lake-effect than the eastern shoreline. Cody sits mid-slope, so the grades are real but nothing like the east-side avenues or the Piedmont hillside, and it sits below the elevation where Bayview Heights starts accumulating extra. The arterials below are cleared first and the residential streets follow.
Biking: Riding here is mostly recreational. The Duluth Traverse is close on both sides, the Munger and Cross City trails are a short ride downhill, and Skyline Parkway above is a classic road ride. The neighborhood's own streets are moderately sloped and low-traffic.
Getting around next door
Immediately downhill, the main street where almost every errand from Cody actually happens.
DenfeldEast, more housing stock, the high school, and the nearest published median.
FairmountSouth, with the Lake Superior Zoo and the Kingsbury Creek corridor.
Bayview HeightsUp the hill west, larger wooded lots, Proctor schools and a harder winter.
IrvingSoutheast toward the bay, a similar era of housing with a park and playfield.