Public parks remain one of the great escape for people looking to work out , enjoy a beautiful landscape painting , or just take a walk . But in urban configurations , the intrusive disturbance of traffic , construction , or other interruption can dampen a park ’s pleasures .
Near Taipei , Taiwan , visitors toYangmingshan National Parkhave a unlike experience entirely . According toCondé Nast Traveler , the commons will be certified this week by Taiwan ’s government and the California - based nonprofit Quiet Parks International as the first - ever Quiet Urban Park . With densely - populated Taipei two hours out , the backcloth disturbance does n’t exceed 45 decibels , or roughly the stage of a quiet conversation .
The park ’s location will grant masses to experience the randomness of their surroundings , fromfrogstobirds . In the other sunup hour , when activity in Taipei is minimal , duckscan be find out paddling across the water . In this setting , the Leslie Townes Hope is that mass know in the bustle of urban life can have a position to decompress . According to Laila Chin - Hui Fan , the environmental journalist who led the motion to get Yangmingshan O.K. , the site is a “ wonderland that can serve cleanse our soundbox , percipient our mind , and lay claim our intent . ”
Quiet Parks International is hoping to certify as many as 50 more parks in the coming decade , admit locations in New York City , London , Stockholm , and Portland , Oregon . Yangmingshan National Park will officially be realise June 5 , and so will a sea mile - long path through the woods that QPI has dub an prescribed Quiet Urban Trail . Visitors are asked to remain unsounded as they take the air and observe the Taiwaneseisoetes , an endangered aquatic quillwort .
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