When people discuss short term vacation rental properties in the Estes Valley, referred to by acronyms such as STVR, STR, VRBO, and Airbnb, they often don’t know just how many properties there are or which government entity, the city or the county, is the regulatory licensing agency.
Because of the way the Town of Estes Park is laid out, some properties are in the town while a property across the street may be in the unincorporated area of Larimer County, yet all are within the Estes Valley Local Marketing District known as Visit Estes Park. And within both the town and the county there are areas zoned as residential others that are zoned as accommodation.
There are currently 877 licensed short term rental properties in the Estes Valley. These properties include the following:
Town residential zones – 322 (capped)
Town accommodation zones – 193
County residential zones – 266 (capped)
County accommodation zones – 96