Herschend Family Entertainment

Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation (HFE) owns, operates or partners in 19 properties in 9 states. Properties include Branson, Missouri's Silver Dollar City theme park, Showboat Branson Belle lake attraction, White Water water park, The Grand Village shops, Talking Rocks Cavern, The Wilderness at Silver Dollar City campground and Celebration City theme park. The company also owns Hawaiian Falls water parks in Garland and The Colony, Texas, with another to open in Dallas in Spring 2005.

Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation is an operating partner with Dolly Parton in the Dollywood Company, which owns the Dollywood theme park and Dollywood's Splash Country water park, both in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The Dollywood Company is also the largest shareholder in the Dixie Stampede dinner attractions located in Branson, Missouri; Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In Georgia, HFE operates Atlanta's Stone Mountain Park in conjunction with the State of Georgia.

HFE recently acquired Ride the Ducks amphibious tours in Branson, Missouri; Baltimore, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Atlanta, Georgia with Memphis, Tennessee to open in Spring 2005. Affiliate Ride the Ducks operations are in Boston, Massachusetts and Seattle, Washington.

Since the company was founded in the early 1960s, the many properties have been internationally awarded numerous times for excellence in theme, presentation and operations, including the worldwide Applause Award for excellence and the THEA Award (Themed Entertainment Assoc.).