Community organizations in Downtown Duluth, Minnesota
Part of the Downtown Duluth neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Downtown Duluth has 4 community organizations, including nonprofits, environmental nonprofits and recreation nonprofits. Where an organization has its own record in the guide, its name links through to it.
Advocacy for Duluth's historic buildings and districts, including the downtown commercial stock whose reuse decides what downtown becomes.
Get involved: Membership, building tours, and advocacy on demolition and reuse decisions.
Convene partners and direct resources into designated focus neighborhoods, the Hillside and Lincoln Park, both of which begin at downtown's upper edge.
Get involved: Partnership and community planning processes.
Protection and restoration of the St. Louis River estuary that empties into the harbor behind Bayfront and Rice's Point.
Get involved: Volunteer restoration events, monitoring, and membership.
Builds and maintains Duluth's mountain bike network, including the Duluth Traverse and the Enger and Piedmont trail centers on the hill directly above downtown.
Get involved: Trail work nights, membership, group rides.
Community next door
Directly across Interstate 35 and connected by the Lake Place lid and the skywalk, the tourism and lakefront district with the region's other flat-ground condominium market.
Central HillsideImmediately up the hill, downtown's own residential neighborhood, with conventional housing at some of the lowest prices in the city.
East End / EndionNortheast along the lake, historic housing with lake views and a walk or short ride into the district.
Lincoln ParkWest about six minutes, the Craft District, with the city's fastest-changing commercial street and its lowest prices.
Park PointSouth across the lift bridge on Minnesota Point, the sand-beach neighborhood whose residents pass through downtown to reach everything.