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Short-term rental rules in Gunnison, CO
How Gunnison regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Short-term rentals here are subject to registration, a lodging tax, or a small number of operating rules.
- No STR-specific ordinance in the enacted 2025 Land Development Code
- No cap, primary-residence rule, or residential-zone exclusion for vacation rentals
- General business license required of all businesses (effective Jan 1, 2026), not STR-specific
- City levies its own 4% municipal sales tax reaching accommodations under 30 nights
Based on: City of Gunnison Land Development Code (LDC), effective 2026-01-06 (adopted, effective date on document 2025-12-18)
Summary of the rule
City of Gunnison levies a 4% municipal sales/use tax: 3% (GMC §3.10.010.A, eff. 2010-01-01) + 1% (§3.10.010.B, eff. 2024-01-01). §3.10.030.A.1 makes the taxable base 'the same as the tangible personal property and services taxable pursuant to C.R.S. § 39-26-104' (which taxes 'rooms or accommodations' furnished for under 30 days). §3.10.030.A.1.e exempts only occupants who are permanent residents of 'any hotel, apartment hotel, lodging house, motor hotel, guest house, guest ranch, mobile home, auto camp, trailer court or park... for a period of at least 30 consecutive days' — confirming lodging/accommodations under 30 days IS reached by the city tax. Codified via Ord. 8-2025 (11/4/2025).
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