The fair place to meet is Kansas City, MO — the city closest to the midpoint of Cleveland and Denver. From the farther side that’s about 14 hr 38 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Kansas City, MO
From Cleveland
14 hr 38 min
698 mi to Kansas City
From Denver
11 hr 41 min
557 mi to Kansas City
Denver has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 2 hr 57 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Cleveland and Denver are about 1,224 miles apart.
Cleveland and Denver are about 1,224 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Kansas City, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 14 hr 38 min of driving on the Cleveland side and 11 hr 41 min on the Denver 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. Kansas City still makes a fair, central place for Cleveland and Denver to converge, splitting the travel instead of asking one side to cross the country.
If Kansas City 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 Cleveland and Denver.
Kansas City, abbreviated KC or KCMO, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by both population and area. It is located on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River, within Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass counties. Read more →
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the lake from Ontario, Canada, and is approximately 60 miles west of the Ohio–Pennsylvania state line. Read more →
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 →
City descriptions adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); photos via Wikimedia Commons, credited above.
Estimates use straight-line distance and typical road speeds; real drive times vary with route and traffic.