Silverthorne, Colorado

Silverthorne, Colorado caps short-term rental licenses town-wide at 740, one of the more aggressive STR license-cap regimes in the country. The cap is enforced by zone: Area 1 (most residential neighborhoods) is limited to 10% of dwelling units, Area 2 (Town Core and Riverfront) to 50%, and Area 3 (deed-restricted/affordable neighborhoods) prohibits STRs entirely. Every license requires an annual fee that scales with bedroom count, from $150 for a studio up to roughly $500 for six-plus bedrooms, and licenses expire November 30 each year with renewal due by October 30.

Silverthorne is a year-round mountain tourism hub and the second-most-populated town in Summit County, Colorado, roughly 70 miles west of Denver and a basecamp for Keystone, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain and Arapahoe Basin. StaySTRA tracks short-term rental performance at a shared regional level covering Silverthorne alongside neighboring Dillon and Frisco, so the figures below describe the Summit County area STR market across this tight, roughly five-mile cluster rather than Silverthorne alone. Listing-type mix, bedroom mix and top property managers are tracked at that same shared level, so this profile omits those breakdowns rather than presenting cluster totals as Silverthorne-specific.

In June 2026, the Summit County area STR market posted an average daily rate of $292 and occupancy of 51.3%, producing average monthly revenue of $2,669 per listing. Year over year, occupancy fell 2.9 percentage points and revenue slipped 2.9%, even as ADR climbed 6.9%, operators appear to be pricing up in a softening-demand environment rather than discounting to hold occupancy.