The fair place to meet is Denver, CO — the city closest to the midpoint of Las Vegas and Minneapolis. From the farther side that’s about 14 hr 39 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Denver, CO
From Las Vegas
12 hr 41 min
605 mi to Denver
From Minneapolis
14 hr 39 min
699 mi to Denver
Las Vegas has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 1 hr 58 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Las Vegas and Minneapolis are about 1,294 miles apart.
Las Vegas and Minneapolis are about 1,294 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Denver, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 12 hr 41 min of driving on the Las Vegas side and 14 hr 39 min on the Minneapolis 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 Las Vegas and Minneapolis to converge, splitting the travel instead of asking one side to cross the country.
If Denver doesn't have what you're after, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Las Vegas and Minneapolis.
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 →
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 →
Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 census, it is the state's most populous city. 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.