The fair place to meet is Kansas City, MO — the city closest to the midpoint of Hartford and Las Vegas. From the farther side that’s about 24 hr 24 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Kansas City, MO
From Hartford
24 hr 24 min
1,163 mi to Kansas City
From Las Vegas
23 hr 55 min
1,141 mi to Kansas City
Las Vegas has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 29 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Hartford and Las Vegas are about 2,290 miles apart.
Hartford and Las Vegas are about 2,290 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 24 hr 24 min of driving on the Hartford side and 23 hr 55 min on the Las Vegas 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 Hartford and Las Vegas 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 Oklahoma City are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Hartford and Las Vegas.
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 →
Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The city, located in Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 at the 2020 census and was estimated at 124,006 in 2025. Read more →
Las Vegas, colloquially shortened to Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. It is the 24th-most populous city in the United States, with 641,903 residents at the 2020 census. 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.