Yosemite Valley Lodge

Yosemite Valley Lodge
formerly: Yosemite Lodge at the Falls Yosemite Lodge
File:Yosemite Lodge dining room.jpg Yosemite Lodge dining room
Hotel chain	Delaware North
General information
Location	Yosemite Village, California, United States
Address	9006 Yosemite Lodge Drive
Management	Yosemite Hospitality, LLC (affiliate of Aramark) (as of March 1, 2016)
Technical details
Floor count	1-2, depending on building
Other information
Number of rooms	249
Number of restaurants	Yosemite Lodge Cafeteria Mountain Broiler Room Garden Terrace (closed)
Website
Yosemite Lodge at DNC Parks & Resorts

The Yosemite Valley Lodge (formerly "Yosemite Lodge at the Falls" and "Yosemite Lodge", often known colloquially in Yosemite as simply "The Lodge") is a lodging accommodation, in western Yosemite Village, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California, located at 9006 Yosemite Lodge Drive.

The Lodge is one of only two lodging options in the valley that encompasses only hotel rooms. The other is the Ahwahnee Hotel, and the two establishments compete for the large patronage that visitors to the park offer. While the Ahwahnee is the more high-scale of the two hotels, Yosemite Lodge is much less expensive and has a cozy, ski-lodge type atmosphere. Yosemite Lodge was renamed "Yosemite Lodge at the Falls" in the mid-2000s due to its location very close to Yosemite Falls.

Delaware North Parks and Resorts' 1992 winning bid for primary concessions led to the company's eventual acquisition of the management of Yosemite Lodge. Delaware North departed Yosemite as concessionaire, making way for incoming Aramark, on March 1, 2016, and Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, now Yosemite Valley Lodge, was one of several properties to change names on that date because DNC claims to own such names as intellectual property.

The Lodge has a total of 249 rooms. It is composed of 226 "lodge rooms", 19 "standard rooms", and 4 "family rooms."

Instead of having every room in a single building, the rooms are spread out over a total of 15 separate buildings, each with anywhere from nine to thirty-six rooms. The Cedar Building is the only one of these buildings to contain the standard and family rooms. Each building has different decor and a different layout; some have exterior corridors, some have interior ones. The buildings are named after species of flowers or trees.

189 cabins and 108 hotel rooms were destroyed or badly damaged by the January 1997 flooding of the Merced River, which runs near the Lodge, meaning the Lodge had 546 rooms/cabins before the flooding and that 54% of lodging was ravaged.

List of buildings

Geographically, from east to west:

• Tamarack (rooms 4121–4129)
• Dogwood (rooms 4111–4119)
• Aspen (rooms 4101–4109)
• Elderberry (rooms 4200–4229)
• Willow (rooms 4300–4325)
• Cottonwood (rooms 4400–4409)
• Manzanita (rooms 4500–4529)
• Cedar (rooms 3901–3927)
• Azalea (rooms 4600–4625)
• Birch (rooms 4700–4706)
• Alder (rooms 3601–3630)
• Maple (rooms 3501–3536)
• Hemlock (rooms 3401–3436)
• Juniper (rooms 3301–3330)
• Laurel (rooms 3201–3330)

Dining

The Lodge contains two dining options:

• The Yosemite Lodge Cafeteria has low-priced foods such as hamburgers, hot dogs, personal pizzas, and occasionally chicken, turkey, or fish items.
• The Mountain Room Restaurant offers the finest dining of the two restaurants. The adjoining Mountain Room Lounge includes a sports bar and stage with regular music performances. The Mountain Room Restaurant has views of Yosemite Falls.

Tour and shuttle bus services

The Yosemite Valley Visitor Shuttle, which ferries tourists to certain destinations and hotels throughout the Valley, has shuttle stop #8 at Yosemite Lodge.

YARTS (Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System) buses, offering service throughout Mono, Mariposa, and Merced Counties, occasionally make stops at the Lodge.

In winter, the Lodge is a hub for skiers going to the Badger Pass ski resort, and daily buses to Badger Pass stop at the Lodge.

See also

• Ahwahnee Hotel
• Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System (YARTS)