Two Memphis spots were among the Best Pet-Friendly Hotels in America in the 2025 USA TODAY 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards.

There have been four other Duckmasters since then. Today, the Peabody Duck March occurs daily at 11am and 5pm to and from the Grand Lobby and their Royal Duck Palace on the hotel's rooftop.

The Peabody Hotel has a robust relationship with Jack Daniel's, with drink specials and packages revolving around the 50-odd private barrels the hotel has selected from the Lynchburg distillery ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Collierville Police officers who rescued eight ducklings from a storm drain in June served as "Honorary Duckmasters" at The Peabody hotel in Downtown Memphis Thursday morning, the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Peabody Hotel was rated first for the best pet-friendly hotel two years in a row, and now, the Central Station Hotel is seventh. USA TODAY 10Best’s readers selected in an… ...

At 11 a.m., the ducks travel from their rooftop Duck Palace to the hotel’s lobby via a dedicated elevator, stepping out onto a red carpet to walk to a fountain in the middle of the lobby.

The ducks at the Peabody Hotel marched through the snow after a winter wonderland was brought to Memphis on Monday. A TikTok video posted by a Duckmaster Kenon shows him leading the ducks on a ...

According to the oft-told story found on various Peabody web (pun intended) sites and in back issues of the Memphis newspapers, the duck tradition "started by accident in the 1930s when the hotel ...

He trained the ducks to make their soon-to-be-famous "Peabody Duck March" to the lobby fountain each day. Fifty years a duckmaster, Pembroke retired in 1991 and died three years later, at 84.

The Peabody Hotel's lobby, home to five mallard ducks. The Peabody, in Memphis, Tennessee, long known as the "South's grand hotel" has no doubt pondered those attributes for the past 88 years, as ...

The Peabody Ducks are five North American mallards, one drake (male) with a white collar and green head and four hens (females) with less colorful plumage. When off-duty, the ducks live in their ...