From Taiwan to Namibia, peaceful places remind us that quiet has the power to remedy a variety of health issues.
Glacier National Park could be one of the few remaining peaceful places in the world. Gordon Hempton, co-founder of Quiet Parks International, explains the criteria for certifying a place as ‘naturally quiet.’
In 2005, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton highlighted Olympic National Park in Washington state as the quietest place in the United States in his One Square Inch of Silence project. Places with natural quiet are also important to animals, says Jesse Barber, professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Boise State University.
In the U.S., the areas with the most potential for tranquil experiences are those with the least flyover traffic from airplanes and remoteness from other transportation noises, according to Les Blomberg, founder and executive director of thein western Montana are among the country’s last remaining natural quiet areas. The northernmost U.S. states are generally more likely to have spaces of natural quiet, says Blomberg.A man cliff dives into McDonald Creek in Glacier National Park, one of two U.
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