MidRally

Meet halfway between Boise and Milwaukee

The fair place to meet is Denver, CO — the city closest to the midpoint of Boise and Milwaukee. From the farther side that’s about 19 hr 8 min of driving.

Denver, CO
Denver, CO — the midpoint Photo: Quintin Soloviev / CC BY 4.0 · Commons

Recommended midpoint

Denver, CO

From Boise

13 hr 21 min

637 mi to Denver

From Milwaukee

19 hr 8 min

913 mi to Denver

Boise has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 5 hr 47 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Boise and Milwaukee are about 1,416 miles apart.

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Meeting in Denver

Boise and Milwaukee are about 1,416 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Denver, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 13 hr 21 min of driving on the Boise side and 19 hr 8 min on the Milwaukee side — the fairest single meeting point among the cities near the middle.

Over this distance most people will fly rather than drive the whole way. Denver still makes a fair, central place for Boise and Milwaukee to converge, splitting the travel instead of asking one side to cross the country.

If Denver doesn't have what you're after, Omaha and Minneapolis are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Boise and Milwaukee.

About the cities

Denver · the midpoint

Denver is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Officially a consolidated city and county, it is located in the South Platte River valley on the western edge of the High Plains, and is just east of the Front Range of the Rocky… Read more →

Boise

Boise is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the county seat of Ada County. The population of the city was 235,685 at the 2020 census. Read more →

Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan at the confluence of the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic Rivers. Read more →

City descriptions adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); photos via Wikimedia Commons, credited above.

Questions

Where is the halfway point between Boise and Milwaukee?
Denver, CO is closest to the geographic midpoint, which makes it the fairest place to meet.
How far apart are they?
About 1,416 miles by road.
How long is the drive to meet in the middle?
Roughly 19 hr 8 min from the farther city to Denver.

Estimates use straight-line distance and typical road speeds; real drive times vary with route and traffic.