—Short-term rental rules · Park City
Park City requires a Nightly Rental business license for every STR. The license is straightforward; the harder layer is the building or HOA — many Park City condos and townhomes forbid STRs outright through their CC&Rs.
Last reviewed against current municipal sources on 2026-05-20.
01The Park City context
The city license tracks the listing for tax and code purposes. It does not override a building or HOA prohibition — a host with a valid Park City license who lists a unit in a no-STR HOA is still in violation of the HOA, and HOAs are aggressive about it in a market this small.
Ski-season demand drives occupancy beyond what most stairwells and parking lots can handle gracefully. The Avalanche and Wasatch ski-traffic posture is real — neighbors track who is and isn’t respecting the building, and complaints flow.
Local rules change — confirm current requirements with your city before you list. This page is a market-context summary and a house-rules starting point, not a legal source or a substitute for Park City's own Utah guidance.
02The house-rules angle
A Park City host should be explicit about the building’s STR rules, the ski-storage choreography (boots in the mudroom, no melting snow on hardwood), parking-lot etiquette, and the no-event posture. Acknowledgment on each is the difference between an HOA letter and a clean turnover.
Spring break and Sundance weekends carry the biggest noise-and-occupancy risk. Concrete rules tied to those specifics keep the listing off the HOA radar.
These are starting points to adapt — not legal advice, and not specific to any one Utah ordinance. Edit the wording and any amounts to your property and what your platform and city allow.
03Put the rules on the file
A house-rules block in your listing is disclosure — it proves the rule existed. It does not prove the guest who booked your Park City place ever saw that specific rule or agreed to it. What sits in the file as evidence after an incident, and what shows good-faith compliance in a regulated market, is acknowledgment: the guest confirming each rule and each fee individually, with a timestamp, before check-in.
PreArrive turns the tuned rules above into a packet the guest signs in about ninety seconds. They tap each rule and each fee to acknowledge it, draw a signature, and you get a PDF certificate — disclosure and acknowledgment in one file, with a two-event audit trail and a content hash. It is evidence, not a verdict: it does not litigate a dispute or decide a code question for you, but it puts a traceable record behind every stay.
Build a packet from these rules once, send it on every reservation. Free covers one property. No credit card.
04Verify with the source
This page is a plainspoken summary. The municipal sources below are where the actual rules live. If something here disagrees with the source, the source is right — let us know and we'll re-review.
Page reviewed 2026-05-20.
05Other regulated markets
The same disclosure-versus-acknowledgment gap shows up across every active STR market. Each city below has a plain-language local summary and a house-rules angle tuned to that market.
Want all of them in one place? See PreArrive for regulated-market hosts.
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