Orange County · New York
Short-term rental rules in Orange County, NY
Short-term-rental rules in Orange County are set municipality by municipality. Below are plain-English, source-cited summaries for its towns, grouped by status. Palisade Stays is a Northern New Jersey and Lower Hudson Valley operator, and we can confirm your specific town's current ordinance with you from primary sources. Tell us your address and we will run it down.
Orange County sits on the west side of the Hudson River in New York's Hudson Valley, home to West Point, Newburgh, Cornwall, and Middletown, across the river from Beacon and Cold Spring. It is a different place from the City of Orange in Essex County, New Jersey.
Researched and reviewed by Jake Lee, Founder of Palisade StaysCurrent as of July 2026How this atlas is maintained
The operator's read
Can I run a short-term rental in Orange County, NY?
Open in most towns
New York is a home-rule state, so there is no county-wide answer: the town decides. Of Orange County's 24 confirmed towns, 16 allow nightly stays outright or with conditions, 67%. That puts it joint second of the 10 counties we map, where that share runs from 10% to 83%.
- Which Orange County towns are the easiest to start in?
- New Windsor, Highlands and Deerpark: these are the open towns whose records name no cap, no ceiling on rental nights and no owner-occupancy rule. That leaves the paperwork and the operating standard, not the permission.
- What closes the rest of Orange County?
- Eight of the 24 confirmed towns are closed to nightly stays: five effectively prohibit them and three restrict them heavily. The second group is the one worth reading closely, because a restriction is a line you can plan around and a ban is not.
- What do the open towns in Orange County require?
- Across the 16 open towns, 13 record a permit or registration step, seven record a cap or quota on permits and five record an owner-occupancy or primary-residence rule. None of them records a ceiling on rental nights. These are tallies of the sourced town records below, not a reading of New York law. The town pages carry the wording.
What would you do with a property in Orange County?
Orange County is the easier end of this region, and that is worth something, but it is not a free pass. The open towns still record a permit or registration step, so treat compliance as the first operating task rather than an afterthought. Confirm the specific town's current position before you commit money.
- Newburgh CityConditions apply
- MiddletownProhibited
- Port JervisConditions apply
- Newburgh TownConditions apply
- New WindsorAllowed
- CornwallRestricted
- HighlandsAllowed
- Blooming GroveProhibited
- ChesterConditions apply
- CrawfordProhibited
- DeerparkAllowed
- GoshenProhibited
- GreenvilleRestricted
- HamptonburghAllowed
- MinisinkRestricted
- MonroeConditions apply
- MontgomeryConditions apply
- Mount HopeConditions apply
- Palm TreeProhibited
- TuxedoAllowed
- WallkillConditions apply
- WarwickConditions apply
- WawayandaConditions apply
- WoodburyConditions apply
Want us to manage your Orange County rental?
See our Orange County management page.
How short-term rentals are regulated in New York
- New York regulates short-term rentals through a mix of state law and local home rule. Towns, villages, and cities set their own ordinances or zoning limits, so rules can vary widely within a single county.
- New York applies state sales and occupancy taxes to short stays, and some counties add a local occupancy tax; collection is often handled by the booking platform.
- Local controls commonly include permits or registration, primary-residence requirements, and zoning restrictions on where short-term use is allowed. Confirm the current rule with the specific municipality.
This is a plain-English summary for owners, reviewed periodically, not legal advice. Ordinances change; confirm the current rule with the municipality (and, where needed, a qualified professional) before you list. Palisade can help you verify.