America’s Quietest Routes

[Andrew Shadow]

What’s the least-traveled route in America?

Find the quietest routes in your state and get ready to hit the open road- America’s Quietest Routes.

 

[SMSW]

No longer....

 

[Shawn K]

I looked up the road for SC, which they claimed to be US-321.

US-321 in SC is only quiet from Hardeeville to about 20 miles south of Columbia. Then it goes to hell in a hand basket in Columbia, quiets down a little on the north side of town, then gets filled up with hillbillies in jacked-up pickup trucks as you approach NC.

That stretch from Hardeeville north is only quiet because it's also the most BORING road in South Carolina, unless you're really into abandoned gas stations, vision fatigue, and the phrase "You ain't from here, are you?"

 

[Uncle Phil]

The quietest road in Tennessee is not 104 but the Natchez Trace! During the week you might see 3 cars on it all day.

 

[ibike2havefun]

The quietest road in Tennessee is not 104 but the Natchez Trace! During the week you might see 3 cars on it all day.

Except around rush hour, in the vicinity of Tupelo. Of course, that part isn't in TN, is it.

 

[Uncle Phil]

Except around rush hour, in the vicinity of Tupelo. Of course, that part isn't in TN, is it.

No, not the last time I checked ...

 

[Bush]

Highway 50 - through Nevada - Ely to Elko - America's loneliest highway

 

[drrod]

There is a Canadian National Park on the border between Saskatchewan and Montana. It is called Grasslands National Park.

Grasslands National Park · SK-4, Val Marie, SK, Canada

★★★★★ · National park

www.google.ca

One of its claims is that, once you get away from the visitor center, you can hear no man made sound. There are no nearby railroads and the flight paths do not cross over it much, if at all. My daughter camped there and said that is is eerily quiet. Spectacular night skys as well. I myself, have not visited it but I have ridden the roads nearby in both SK and MT and can attest to the fact that it truly "in the middle of nowhere".

Here is an interesting article.

The last place on Earth without human noise

Is there anywhere left utterly free of man-made sound? In the first of a series for BBC Future called Last Place on Earth, Rachel Nuwer sets out to find havens where silence still rules – but discovers that avoiding civilisation’s clatter is harder than it seems. In fact, there’s one human noise...

vestibular.org

 

[Upt' North]

There is a Canadian National Park on the border between Saskatchewan and Montana. It is called Grasslands National Park.

Grasslands National Park · SK-4, Val Marie, SK, Canada

★★★★★ · National park

www.google.ca

One of its claims is that, once you get away from the visitor center, you can hear no man made sound. There are no nearby railroads and the flight paths do not cross over it much, if at all. My daughter camped there and said that is is eerily quiet. Spectacular night skys as well. I myself, have not visited it but I have ridden the roads nearby in both SK and MT and can attest to the fact that it truly "in the middle of nowhere".

Here is an interesting article.

The last place on Earth without human noise

Is there anywhere left utterly free of man-made sound? In the first of a series for BBC Future called Last Place on Earth, Rachel Nuwer sets out to find havens where silence still rules – but discovers that avoiding civilisation’s clatter is harder than it seems. In fact, there’s one human noise...

vestibular.org

Who'd have thought it I live about 20 miles from the quietist place on earth, but I can verify when the occasional shell fire and bombing takes place it does go up a decibel or two. I can just about hear it if out in the garden in the summer with a sou'wester blowing.
Well I never.
Upt'North.