Casper, WY Short-Term Rentals: Primary-Residence-Only Rule (2026)

Casper's code separates three tiers of overnight lodging in a home. A plain "bed and breakfast" at § 17.08.010 is lodging with breakfast for stays of no more than seven consecutive days, without an explicit owner-occupancy requirement. A "bed and breakfast homestay" tightens that: it must be a private, owner-occupied residence, capped at two guest rooms, and the lodging use must stay subordinate and incidental to the dwelling's main residential use, again with a seven-day stay cap. A "bed and breakfast inn," by contrast, is expressly allowed to operate even when the owner does not live on the premises.

That three-way split means the homestay category is the one built around owner presence: once the operator stops living there or the guest-room count exceeds two, the operation no longer fits the homestay definition and falls instead under the general bed and breakfast or inn categories, which carry their own zoning status. Bed and breakfast uses generally are conditional uses requiring a Planning and Zoning Commission hearing in the R-1 district (§ 17.28.030(A)) and the R-2 district (§ 17.32.030(A)), and a permitted use in the AG district (§ 17.24.020(3)).