Airbnb & Vacation Rental Management in Dubois, Wyoming

Dubois is a small town in Fremont County, tucked into the Upper Wind River Valley between the Absaroka Range to the north and the Wind River Range to the south, at 6,940 feet on the banks of the Wind River. It's home to 911 year-round residents as of the 2020 census — genuinely small, with a tie-hack logging history you can still see in the wood flumes left on the hillsides from the Scandinavian loggers who worked here a century ago. Wyo Stays is a licensed Wyoming real estate brokerage that manages Airbnb and vacation rental properties for owners in Dubois. We don't keep an office there — we serve Dubois remotely from Sheridan, under the same trust-account and licensing protections we use everywhere else in the state.

Why Dubois

Dubois sits directly on US-26/287, the start of the Wyoming Centennial Scenic Byway, where the highway climbs to Togwotee Pass — 9,655 feet, on the Continental Divide — before dropping into Moran Junction and Grand Teton National Park, and on to Yellowstone beyond it. That makes Dubois the most direct eastern gateway to both parks, not a detour on the way to somewhere else.

The town's own anchor draw is the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center, dedicated to the largest wintering herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the contiguous United States, which winters in the Whiskey Basin just outside town alongside the Fitzpatrick Wilderness in the Shoshone National Forest. Dubois is also genuinely two-sided in a way few Wyoming towns are: the volcanic Absaroka Range rises to the north — known locally for its dramatic spires and turrets carved from ancient lava flows and mudflows — while the granite peaks and alpine lakes of the Wind River Range, including Gannett Peak, Wyoming's highest summit, rise to the south. Closer to town, the Dubois Badlands — a 4,520-acre BLM area of eroded red and tan sedimentary benches and hoodoos — and scattered petrified wood in the draws around town give Dubois a landscape that looks genuinely different from the rest of Wyoming's mountain towns.

What the numbers say

AirDNA counts 120 active short-term rental listings in Dubois, earning an average $270 nightly rate at 52% occupancy — a $37.7K annual revenue and $141 RevPAR per listing. Read the year-over-year swings together: active listings are down 27.3% while revenue per listing is up 38.9% — fewer listings pulling in meaningfully more business each, which reads as demand holding up in a market with shrinking supply, not a market cooling off. That's market-level data, not a guarantee for any one property.

Source: AirDNA — Dubois, Wyoming overview (pulled September 2026; figures change over time — confirm current data before relying on it for a pricing decision).

What we handle

• Listing setup & photography — professional photography, copywriting, and syndication across Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, and our own direct-booking site.
• Pricing & availability — nightly rates built against live Dubois comp data, with Togwotee Pass summer/fall traffic, fall hunting season, and the Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center's winter wildlife tours priced as the real demand windows they are rather than left on a flat calendar.
• Guest messaging — booking requests and guest communication handled under a written property management agreement, year-round.
• Cleaning & turnovers — coordinated through vetted local Dubois cleaning and maintenance vendors, scheduled on the owner's behalf.
• Tax setup & permit confirmation — Wyoming Department of Revenue sales and lodging tax registration, plus confirming any applicable Fremont County or Town of Dubois permit requirements directly with the relevant office before a listing goes live.

Licensed and insured

Wyo Stays operates as a licensed Wyoming real estate brokerage. Under Wyoming law, managing a rental for someone else's compensation — collecting rent, handling bookings, accounting for fees received on an owner's behalf — is a regulated real estate activity, and a licensed brokerage has to hold guest funds in a dedicated trust account that can't be commingled with operating funds (W.S. § 33-28-122). That comes with a fiduciary duty to the owner and accountability to the Wyoming Real Estate Commission. We also carry errors & omissions (E&O) insurance.

You can verify our license status yourself through the Wyoming Real Estate Commission's public license lookup in about thirty seconds — search "Wyo Stays" or "Dalton Goodyear." See what "licensed and insured" actually means for the full breakdown.

How we serve Dubois from Sheridan

To be direct about it: Wyo Stays does not have a physical office or staff stationed in Dubois. We're a licensed statewide Wyoming brokerage based in Sheridan, 297 miles away — south on US-14 through the Bighorn Basin and Wind River Valley, about 6 hours, nearly five times outside Airbnb's 60-mile co-host service-area cap. That's not a knock against Dubois as a market — it's the reason a single-identity Airbnb co-host structurally can't cover it at any rating, and it's exactly the gap a licensed statewide brokerage is built to close. A Wyoming real estate broker's license carries statewide, so listing setup, pricing, guest messaging, and trust-account-protected booking funds are all handled the same way from Sheridan, with vetted local cleaning and maintenance coordinated on the ground in Dubois — the same statewide-brokerage model already running in Lander and Riverton, not a local drop-in service.