Airbnb & Vacation Rental Management in Gillette, Wyoming

Wyo Stays is a licensed Wyoming real estate brokerage that manages Airbnb and vacation rental properties for owners in Gillette. We don't keep an office there — we serve Gillette remotely from Sheridan, under the same trust-account and licensing protections we use everywhere else in the state.

Why Gillette

Gillette's population was 34,024 as of the U.S. Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate, and it's the county seat of Campbell County.

Campbell County's own government describes the county as "the energy capital of the nation," noting that 30% of the nation's coal is produced in area surface mines. Wyoming as a whole produces roughly 40% of total U.S. coal production, per 2021 Wyoming State Geological Survey data, and a substantial share of that comes out of the mines surrounding Gillette. That concentration of energy-sector activity brings a steady flow of contractors and project-based workers into Gillette for stays that don't fit a standard hotel booking, on top of families visiting Campbell County and travelers passing through on I-90. The county's own framing ties its growth to the coal, oil, and gas industries — a dynamic that shapes lodging demand in Gillette differently than it does in a tourism-driven market.

Gillette is also home to CAM-PLEX, which Campbell County calls "the Cowboy State's premier multi-use facility" — more than 1,000 acres that include a fine arts theatre, a convention and exhibit hall, two multi-purpose pavilions, a racetrack, rodeo grounds, and 1,730 RV sites. Events at CAM-PLEX draw visitors into Gillette from outside the county, adding to the baseline demand tied to the energy sector. For an owner in Gillette, that combination — a steady base of energy-sector travel plus event-driven spikes around CAM-PLEX — is different from what drives demand in a resort market, and it's worth pricing and marketing a property around specifically rather than treating a Gillette listing like any other Wyoming rental.

Sheridan, where Wyo Stays is based, is 104 road miles from Gillette via I-90 East, about one hour and 34 minutes.

What we handle

A Gillette property gets the same scope of management we run for any Wyo Stays listing, adjusted for what actually drives bookings in Gillette — energy-sector travel and CAM-PLEX events — rather than a generic tourism playbook.

• Listing setup & photography — professional photography, copywriting, and syndication across Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, and our own direct-booking site
• Pricing & availability — nightly rates rebuilt against live Gillette and Campbell County comp data, adjusted around CAM-PLEX events and the seasonal rhythm of energy-sector travel
• Guest messaging — booking requests and guest communication handled under a written property management agreement, including the longer, contractor-style stays that are more common in Gillette than in a typical vacation market
• Cleaning & turnovers — our own in-house cleaning crews, not subcontracted out to whoever answers the phone that week
• Maintenance coordination — local Gillette vendors coordinated and scheduled on the owner's behalf, so an owner isn't the one fielding the call when something needs fixing
• Licensing & tax setup — Wyoming Department of Revenue registration, lodging and sales tax setup and remittance

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. 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, including how to run that lookup yourself.

How we serve Gillette from Sheridan

To be direct about it: Wyo Stays does not have a physical office or staff stationed in Gillette. We're a licensed statewide Wyoming brokerage based in Sheridan, 104 miles away via I-90 East, and we manage Gillette properties remotely.

In practice, that means listing setup, pricing, guest messaging, accounting, and licensing/tax administration are handled from Sheridan, while cleaning and maintenance on the ground in Gillette are handled through local vendors we coordinate and schedule. The trust-account handling, licensing, and fiduciary duty that come with a Wyoming broker's license apply the same way to a Gillette property as they do to one down the street from our Sheridan office — the license is statewide, not tied to a physical location.

That's a deliberate tradeoff, and we'd rather state it plainly than let a Gillette owner assume something that isn't true: we don't have a storefront in downtown Gillette. What we can offer instead is the statewide licensing, trust-account structure, and E&O coverage of a real estate brokerage, applied consistently to a Gillette property from a base 104 miles away.