[1] The Lodge is the less expensive of the two options in the Yosemite Valley that offer hotel rooms.

The offerings of the Lodge complex were reduced by more than half following damage from the 100-year flood of January 1997, when the Merced River damaged or destroyed numerous cabins and more than 100 hotel rooms in other buildings.

In January 1997, during a 100-year flood of the nearby Merced River, some 189 cabins and 108 hotel rooms of the Lodge were destroyed or badly damaged as a result.

During a copyright dispute between Delaware North and the National Park Service later that year, NPS renamed Yosemite Lodge at the Falls as Yosemite Valley Lodge, along with several related properties.

[4][5] After settlement of the dispute in 2019, NPS restored the historical names of the Lodge and other attractions in the Park.