Bend IT SolutionsBend HOA & resort short-term-rental rules
Even where the City of Bend allows a short-term rental, a homeowners association or resort covenant can still permit, restrict, or ban one. Here's a curated, sourced guide to the communities that come up most.
A Bend STR has to clear two separate gates
- City land-use rules — does the zone allow it, and does it clear the separation buffer? Our free checker answers this from the City's own data.
- Private HOA / CC&R rules — a recorded declaration can prohibit an STR even where the City permits one. That's not in any government dataset; this page is the overlay.
The stricter gate wins. Always confirm both before you buy.
Resorts that generally allow STRs
Destination resorts that run or market their own vacation-rental programs.
Sunriver
Vacation rentals are explicitly permitted and central to the community. The Sunriver Owners Association sets occupancy, parking, and quiet-hours rules; county transient-room-tax registration is required.
Caldera Springs
A destination resort just south of Sunriver where vacation rentals are part of the model, typically run through the resort's rental program.
Eagle Crest Resort
A recognized destination resort running an active vacation-rental program with a 2-night minimum stay.
Juniper Preserve (formerly Pronghorn)
A destination-resort/wellness community NE of Bend with an active villa vacation-rental program.
Brasada Ranch
Crook County's first destination resort, with active nightly cabin/vacation-home rentals under its destination-resort overlay.
Black Butte Ranch
A long-established destination resort running 90+ privately-owned vacation homes through a centralized rental program with owner registration.
Allowed only in part
STRs are permitted for some lots or under specific conditions — verify your exact parcel qualifies.
Tetherow
Tetherow runs a sanctioned vacation-rental program, but only a designated section of homes was built as rentals (with availability requirements). Purely residential lots may still be restricted.
Broken Top
The City exempts only the 'Courtyards at Broken Top' (Lots 1–8 and 21–32) from STR land-use approval and the separation rule. The rest of Broken Top is residential where STRs are generally not permitted.
Seventh Mountain / Widgi Creek
Seventh Mountain Resort runs a large vacation-rental operation; adjacent Widgi Creek townhomes permit nightly rentals on a grandfathered basis, and many are actively listed.
Residential HOAs — STRs likely restricted
Residential communities where short-term rentals are probably prohibited or capped. Where we mark a record unverified, we have not read the recorded CC&Rs — treat it as a prompt to check, not a final answer.
NorthWest Crossing
A master-planned westside neighborhood widely reported to restrict short-term rentals; homes here are commonly marketed only as 30-day-minimum (mid-term) rentals.
Awbrey Glen
A residential golf HOA on Awbrey Butte. City separation rules already make most lots STR-ineligible, and the HOA likely restricts rentals — but its CC&Rs were not verified.
Mountain High
A gated SE-Bend HOA with its own governing documents (including landlord/tenant rules), likely restricting short-term rentals — but the specific CC&R clause was not verified.
River's Edge
A golf-course residential area governed by several separate HOAs. STRs are likely restricted, but none of the sub-associations' CC&Rs were verified.
Unofficial and informational. HOA and resort policies are summarized from the sources linked above and can change; some records are explicitly marked unverified. This is not legal advice. Before buying or operating a short-term rental, confirm the property's current City of Bend (or county) land-use status and read the property's recorded CC&Rs / HOA declaration. Community matching on our map is approximate.