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What’s the best driving route from Chicago to Las Vegas?

I’m moving from Chicago to Vegas to work as a poker dealer. What’s the best driving route from Chicago to Las Vegas?

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Jason Tushinski · Updated on
Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
The best driving route from
Chicago
to
Las Vegas
will take you mostly along I-80 W and I-70 W. It’s a journey of 25 hours that will cover 1,787 miles.
There is plenty to see on this Chi-Town to Sin City drive—here are the highlights:
  • Skip out of
    Illinois
    on I-80 W. Pass through Iowa City and take a stroll through the University of Iowa’s beautiful campus.
  • Continue through Des Moines, stopping in Omaha, Nebraska—the Cornhusker State’s biggest city.
  • Leave Omaha and continue heading west through Nebraska’s grasslands, passing through Lincoln and eventually crossing into Colorado before landing in Denver. Mosey through Meow Wolf, the psychedelic immersive art museum.
  • Decamp early from Denver and venture past ski towns and through the White River National Forest before crossing into Utah’s high desert along I-70.
  • Continue through Utah, gazing at the red sandstone formations in Dixie National Forest, and drive across just a sliver of Arizona before rolling into
    Nevada
    .
  • Take I-15 all the way into Las Vegas.
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