Ride the Ducks is a national duck tour operator, and an eponymous tourist attraction in U.S. cities such as Branson, Missouri; Newport, Kentucky; San Francisco, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Stone Mountain Park, Georgia. It makes use of over 90 amphibious vehicles (nicknamed "ducks") to provide tours of cities by boat and by land. Ride the Ducks is owned by Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation, which is involved in various family entertainment ventures.
Ride the Ducks of San Francisco also operates Classic Cable Car Sightseeing in which customers can take a city tour on a San Francisco Classic Cable Car. Some are original cable cars from the California Street Cable Car Line dating back to the late 19th century/early 20th century. All others were built from the ground up using the original cable car blueprints and constructed of solid oak and brass.
Similar duck-boat based tours operate in other cities (such as Cincinnati, Boston, Portland, Seattle, and Toronto), but are not operated by Ride The Ducks. Ride The Ducks has provided vehicles to some of these other companies, such as their relationship with Boston's Duck Tours.
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Famous quotes containing the words ride and/or ducks:
“We would not always be soothing and taming nature, breaking the horse and the ox, but sometimes ride the horse wild and chase the buffalo.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)