Grand Lake, CO short-term rental license

What Grand Lake asks of you

• The code leaves the license fee to a town resolution based on occupancy categories. It writes no dollar amount of its own.^[5]

• Single-family zones allow nightly rentals in the single-family residence only. Multi-family zones also allow them in multiple-family dwellings.^[5]

• The Commercial Transitional, Commercial and Resort districts apply the same license conditions. There, an owner whose property the county assesses at a commercial rate may buy a business license instead.^[5]

• In residential zones, renewal is a simple repurchase of the license after a year without complaints, provided taxes and fees are paid. A single complaint changes that.^[5]

• After a complaint, the owner pays the application fee again, and the town reviews the rental as a conditional use. A complaint is a police citation or a signed letter.^[5]

• A local contact who lives or works within a 45-minute drive answers at any hour while guests are there. Their details are displayed inside the unit.^[5]

• Vehicles stay on the lot itself, or in an off-site area the town designates. Every ad gives the number of spaces on the property.^[5]

• A single-family nightly rental keeps on-site snow storage equal to a third of its parking area, outside the required spaces.^[5]

• Trash that draws bears goes in an approved wildlife-resistant container or a locked building.^[5]

• A property inside a homeowners association needs its sign-off. A nightly rental never qualifies for a sign permit.^[5]

• The town bans unnecessary or unusually loud noise starting at 10:00 p.m. That ban lifts at 6:00 a.m.^[6]

• The text of the town's two noise sections must be posted inside the unit.^[5]

• The agency that performs the yearly fire inspection sets its own price.^[5]

• Every ad lists the unit's allowed occupancy. In the codified text, that figure comes from the latest fire and life safety inspection.^[5]

• Ordinance 04-2026, adopted on August 10, 2026, ties both advertised and rented occupancy to the figure on the owner's license application instead.^[7]

• Ordinance 05-2026, also adopted on August 10, 2026, repeals the notice sent to neighbors within 100 feet once a license is approved.^[8]

• Each ad also carries the Grand Lake nightly rental license number in the unit description. The license and its conditions stay posted inside for the full term.^[5]

• Advertising without a license first brings a certified cease-and-desist letter. The owner then has ten days to pull the ad.^[5]

• Three violations in one license year mean a six-month suspension. Five mean permanent revocation.^[5]

What Colorado asks wherever you host

These rules apply at this address whatever the city decides.

• When guests book through a platform, it collects Colorado sales tax on the full amount charged. The platform also handles any county lodging tax and local marketing district tax.^[1]

• Lodging taxes a city sets stay outside the state's system, since the Department of Revenue administers none of them. Home-rule cities that run their own sales tax sit outside it too, so start with your city.^[1]

• Hosts who take direct bookings need a Colorado sales tax license and collect the 2.9% state rate themselves. The license is $16, prorated, with a $50 deposit returned once your state tax tops $50.^[2]