The fair place to meet is Denver, CO — the city closest to the midpoint of Los Angeles and Minneapolis. From the farther side that’s about 17 hr 24 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Denver, CO
From Los Angeles
17 hr 24 min
830 mi to Denver
From Minneapolis
14 hr 39 min
699 mi to Denver
Minneapolis has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 2 hr 45 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Los Angeles and Minneapolis are about 1,521 miles apart.
Los Angeles and Minneapolis are about 1,521 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Denver, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 17 hr 24 min of driving on the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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 →
Los Angeles (LA) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. 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.