Park City, UT Short-Term Rental Rules (2026)
Can I operate a short-term rental in Park City?
Nightly rental is lawful where zoning allows it, with a city Nightly Rental License, a building inspection and a local responsible party. A handful of named subdivisions and storefront blocks prohibit it, and association covenants can too.
Key facts
What the record says about short-term rentals in Park City, with the level of law each comes from. What do these facts mean?
Can you operate?
Stay limits
Taxes
Why this score
The main reasons Park City scores the way it does. Listed most important first.
What holds it back
- Permit or license (Yes) lowers the score.
- Zone eligibility (Most zones) lowers the score.Source
- Lodging tax (14.62%) lowers the score.
Not yet known
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- 25 facts are not yet established, so the score leans on typical values.
Operating restrictions
What limits how, where and how often you can rent in Park City.
Occupancy / night caps / zoning limits
Zone-specific limits include conditional use permits for lockout units, bans on accessory apartment nightly rental, and parking or on-site management expectations in some districts.
- Lockout unit nightly rental needs a conditional use permit
- Accessory apartments cannot be rented nightly
- Several subdivisions prohibit nightly rental outright
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Permit requirements
What you need to file or hold before hosting in Park City.
Permits & licensing
The Finance Department issues the licence after the Building Department inspects the property. Hosts must confirm the property is in a zone and subzone that allows nightly rental and register for state sales tax unless bookings all run through a platform.
- Nightly Rental License from the Finance Department
- Passed Building Department inspection report
- Local responsible party reachable on call
- Zoning that allows nightly rental
- State sales tax number unless all bookings go through a marketplace platform
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Taxes
Lodging, occupancy and related taxes or fees.
Taxes & fees
State sales tax and county and municipal transient room taxes apply. The city fee schedule lists an administrative fee and a per-bedroom lodging fee for the licence.
- Administrative licence fee of about $149
- Per-bedroom lodging fee of about $28.74
- Platforms collect and remit taxes on facilitated bookings
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Recent changes
The dated change history is part of the free account. Email alerts above need no account.
Market assumptions
Estimates, not lawRevenue, occupancy and returns depend on the specific property and are estimates, separate from the rules above.
Run any property in Park City through the deal analyzer for cash flow, cap rate, and long-term projections.
Sources
Last verified October 22, 2026 (19 days ago). Short-term rental rules can change between checks. Confirm current requirements with the jurisdiction before relying on this for a real decision.
- parkcity.gov › …-for-a-business-licenses/nightly-rental-license
- parkcity.gov › planning/lmc_updates_code_amendments.php
- files.tax.utah.gov
- kpcw.org
- parkcity.gov › 16891/635833466488430000
- parkcity.municipalcodeonline.com
- avantstay.com
- le.utah.gov › Chapter50/C17-50-S338_2025050720250507.pdf
- le.utah.gov › enrolled/HB0256.pdf
- tax.utah.gov › webinars/2024-10-17-presentation.pdf
- tax.utah.gov › new/pub-71-jul2025.pdf
- tax.utah.gov › sales/transientroom
A free STRVE account shows which rule each source supports, plus the full jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction breakdown, change history, and rule-change alerts for Park City.
Short-term rental rules near Park City
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The STRVE Score is our own regulation rating, built from seven levels of authority: state, county, town, HOA, deed restrictions, special districts, and platform rules. Each level is scored separately, with its own citations and the date we verified it. The headline number is the strictest of the seven, never an average, because the tightest rule is the one that governs you.
We keep a history of what a city's rules said before and when they changed, so a score that moves is traceable to the rule that moved it.
- Highly permissive
- 90+
- Friendly
- 70–89
- Moderate
- 45–69
- Heavily restricted
- 20–44
- Effectively banned
- 0–19
Not legal advice
STRVE is a research tool, not financial or legal advice. Always verify regulation, tax, and permitting details with the local jurisdiction and a licensed professional before you buy.
The STRVE Score and the seven-level breakdown are our own rating framework, not an official or government rating, and no jurisdiction endorses or reviews them. The rules behind them are researched from public sources with AI assistance and are current only as of the verification date shown, so they can be incomplete, outdated, or wrong. None of it substitutes for advice from local counsel. Confirm every permit, tax, occupancy, and zoning requirement against the jurisdiction's own municipal code and with an attorney licensed in that jurisdiction before you buy, list, or operate. Terms of Service