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America’s “Quiet Zone”

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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Is There a Quiet Zone?

The quiet zone is a place where you can get away from the modern world. There's an acoustic biologist named gordon hempton whose, he's determed that there are only 12 places left in the united states that are still audibly quiet. It'd be impossible to try and create a new quiet zone, to say we're going to take yourselvstores away. You can only protect what we still have. May we all fin our own personal quiet zones in this noisy world of ours.

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