This Is The Quietest Place In America — huffingtonpost.com

As travelers, we're always looking for places to unplug, unwind and totally disconnect from the hectic world we live in. Away from human buzz, we're able to get in touch with ourselves while truly getting away. So apparently, we should head to this single square inch of land in Olympic National Park -- it's known as the quietest place in America. Back in the 80s, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton began a mission to find the quietest places in the U.S. -- armed with a tape recorder, he looked for places where he could record a whole tape's worth of sound without one human interruption from noises like planes, voices or cars. By the early 90s, he had concluded there were less than 12 of these "quiet places" in the entire lower 48 states.

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