Getting around Midway Township, Minnesota
Part of the Midway Township neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Midway is a two-car township and there is no honest way to soften that.
By car it is well placed for a rural address: downtown Duluth about twenty minutes, the Miller Hill corridor about seventeen, Proctor about ten, the airport about twenty and Superior about twenty-five. Interstate 35 clips the township, which is the reason those numbers are as low as they are.
By bus, there is nothing. No DTA route serves the township. The nearest service is route 109, running Proctor and Spirit Valley to the Duluth Transportation Center, and that serves the City of Proctor about ten minutes east (DTA routes and schedules, accessed 2026-08-14). Nobody here commutes by transit.
On foot, there is nothing to walk to. No grocery, no school, no shop and no transit stop inside the boundary. Walking here is recreation on your own land or in Jay Cooke, not transport.
On a bike, the county and township roads are pleasant in summer and carry little traffic, with no shoulder or lighting to speak of. The Munger Trail is the real infrastructure, and Mission Creek and the western end of the Duluth Traverse cover mountain biking within about fifteen minutes.
Winter is the honest constraint. Upland elevation means more snow, colder nights and a longer season than the lakeshore, with none of the lake-effect moderation the shoreline gets. Interstate 35 and the county roads are maintained well. The variable is the last stretch: township roads and private drives run on a different schedule and sometimes a different party, so establish before buying who plows the road to the parcel and who plows the drive. Duluth's airport, at similar elevation, averages about 90 inches of snow a season on the 1991 to 2020 normals (NWS Duluth, accessed 2026-08-14).
Major roads: Interstate 35, Midway Road, Becks Road, North Cloquet Road, Lindahl Road, Ugstad Road, Stark Road.
Biking: Rural riding on low-traffic county and township roads, which is genuinely pleasant in summer and has no shoulder or lighting to speak of. For dedicated infrastructure, the Willard Munger State Trail is the draw: 70 paved miles from Hinckley to Duluth per the Minnesota DNR, with the Carlton to Duluth section passing through Jay Cooke State Park. Mission Creek and the western end of the Duluth Traverse cover mountain biking within about fifteen minutes.
The hill: Upland plateau above the St. Louis River valley. Measured points give about 1,240 feet at the township's geographic internal point and about 1,276 feet on Lindahl Road, against about 610 feet at the Duluth lakeshore, so this sits roughly 630 to 670 feet above the lake. That elevation is the single most practical fact about living here: it puts the township firmly in the snowier, colder band above the lake, and the lake-effect moderation that keeps the shoreline neighborhoods milder in autumn does not reach this far inland or this far up. Elevations measured against the USGS Elevation Point Query Service, 2026-08-14.
Getting around next door
The township's service town about ten minutes east, with the schools, the groceries and the restaurants.
Canosia Township and Pike LakeNorth of Hermantown in the same school district, the other rural township in this guide, with lake frontage this one does not have.
HermantownThe suburban city immediately north, with new construction, municipal services and the region's highest price per square foot.
Gary-New DuluthSoutheast into far-west Duluth, city services and much lower prices along the St. Louis River.
EskoWest about fifteen minutes into Carlton County, a small unincorporated community with a strong school district of its own.