Grand Coulee STR Report 2026: Dam, Lake, Modest Scale

Thomas Garner
Aug 18
12 min read

Updated: 18 hours ago

Aerial view of Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River

Grand Coulee and Banks Lake sit in Grant County, Washington, eighty-five to one hundred minutes from Spokane via US-2 and SR-155. This market is not a Seattle mash. Electric City is adjacent. Coulee Dam is a separate incorporated town. AirROI 404s on Grand Coulee, Electric City, Coulee City, Coulee Dam, and Ephrata. This file will not invent a typical year, ADR, occupancy, or listing count to fill that hole. Grand Coulee City Hall is. Deputy Fire Marshal Beach is x3045. The Fire Marshal office is x3006. Electric City Hall is.

The dated visitor season is Reclamation, not a rent roll. One River, Many Voices runs May 22 through September 30, 2026: 10 p.m. through July 31, 9:30 p.m. August 1 through 31, and 8:30 p.m. September 1 through 30, about thirty minutes, free, no ticket. John W. Keys III Pump-Generating Plant tours run Friday through Sunday May 22 through October 31, 2026. Adjacent Soap Lake prints August as peak and March as the lowest revenue month. Those ranks are Soap Lake. They do not travel to this dam.

This report stays on the 404, the clerks, and the dated hooks. It will not mash the pin as Seattle. It will not average Soap Lake $12,335 with Moses Lake $28,114. It will not treat dam visits as host revenue. Modest open field is the supply story, not a gold mine. Electric City is adjacent, not a second caption. Rank-file costume years are leftover. Read the neighbor cells as neighbor cells. Then decide which driveway you hold.

There Is No Grand Coulee AirROI Year to Quote

AirROI's Grand Coulee path 404s. Electric City 404s. Coulee City 404s. Coulee Dam 404s. Ephrata 404s. That empty set is the first market fact. This file will not invent a typical year to sit in the hole. It will not invent an ADR. It will not invent occupancy. If a broker memo prints a Coulee year, send the memo back and ask which scrape produced it. If the scrape is Soap Lake, label it Soap Lake. If the scrape is Moses Lake, label it Moses Lake. If there is no scrape, say so.

Soap Lake, updated August 8, 2026 for August 2025 through July 2026, prints $12,335, ADR $242, occupancy 24.5 percent, RevPAR $58, and n of 31. Peak month is August. Lowest revenue is March. Year over year is minus 25.8 percent. Professionally managed share is 6.5 percent. About 22.6 percent of those cards set a 30-plus night gate. Quote the whole cell as Soap Lake. Do not treat it as Grand Coulee. Do not treat it as Banks Lake. Do not treat it as Electric City. Drive time is not inventory.

The finance fileshould open on the 404 labeled as a 404, not on a costume Coulee T12.The purchase fileunderwrites clerk facts the same way. Use both before you bid. If last year on this house printed a number, that is your T12. If you have no books, you have no Coulee year. The 404 is the market. Do not decorate it with a Seattle caption or a borrowed neighbor occupancy.

Spokane Is Eighty-Five to One Hundred Minutes, Not Seattle

The pin is Grand Coulee and Banks Lake in Grant County, eighty-five to one hundred minutes from Spokane via US-2 and SR-155. That drive is origin. It is not identity. Guests from Spokane appear because the dam is a weekend they can actually make. That is where they started. It is not a reason to file this listing as a Seattle suburb or to paste Seattle short-term rules onto a Grant County driveway. Do not write downtown Seattle as the walk. Do not write Spokane city law as this clerk.

Seattle city STR rules do not travel here. The City of Grand Coulee is one clerk. The City of Electric City is a second clerk. Unincorporated Grant County is a third rulebook. Town of Coulee City is a fourth if the parcel sits there. Town of Coulee Dam is another incorporated town at the dam, not Grand Coulee city. Confirm the parcel before you underwrite today. A tile that says Grand Coulee Dam and a driveway that sits in Electric City is a map lie. Minutes matter. If it is a drive, say the drive.

The rules filekeeps the halls apart.The guest filesplits dam guests from Spokane weekenders. Use both when a packet opens on Seattle as if that were this market. Drive time is demand. Drive time is not occupancy. A Friday night from Spokane does not mint a Coulee year because US-2 exists. Write the hours you can prove from the driveway. Leave the costume metro off the first sentence.

The Dam and Banks Lake Are Demand, Not a T12

Grand Coulee Dam is the largest concrete structure and the largest hydroelectric producer in the United States. The Visitor Center runs daily 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific, closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. One River, Many Voices is the 2026 laser: May 22 through September 30, about thirty minutes, free. Start times are 10 p.m. through July 31, 9:30 p.m. in August, and 8:30 p.m. in September. Keys plant tours run Friday through Sunday May 22 through October 31. Those sentences are demand you can date. They are not a rent roll.

Banks Lake is a different reservoir. It is about twenty-seven miles long and sits behind Dry Falls Dam, fed from Lake Roosevelt through the Keys plant. Grand Coulee Dam itself creates Lake Roosevelt, not Banks Lake. Do not mash the two bodies of water. Steamboat Rock State Park is 5,043 acres at 51052 Highway 155, Electric City. Dry Falls drops 400 feet and spans 3.5 miles. Visitor geology is not occupancy. Do not divide a dam line by an invented listing count and call the result a Saturday night.

The hooks fileis the dated walk.The tourism filekeeps visitor traffic off the rent roll. Use both when a broker memo treats laser hours as occupancy. Photograph the walk you can actually make. Do not steal a stock dam face and imply it is the yard. Dates and feet beat a costume caption. Write the laser if the guest can watch it from a named overlook. Leave visitor counts off the lender cover.

Soap Lake $12,335 Is a Neighbor, Not This Market

Soap Lake is the nearest published AirROI cell this file will quote as a neighbor. Typical year $12,335. ADR $242. Occupancy 24.5 percent. RevPAR $58. Sample n of 31. Peak month August. Lowest revenue March. Peak three August, September, and May. Soft stretch February, March, and April. Year over year minus 25.8 percent. Entire-home share 90.3 percent. Superhost share 35.5 percent. Professionally managed share 6.5 percent, Evolve on two listings. About 22.6 percent set 30-plus nights. Lead 62 days. Stay 3.2 nights. Those figures travel together as Soap Lake.

They do not describe Grand Coulee. They do not describe Banks Lake. They do not describe Electric City. AirROI neighborhoods that mash Grand Coulee Dam, Coulee City, Banks Lake, and Sun Lakes into the Soap Lake cell are costume. Label that desk as that desk. Occupancy of 24.5 percent is already a modest year. Year over year minus 25.8 percent is part of that desk. Erase the drop and the neighbor is already wrong. Do not borrow March as this Coulee hole. Do not borrow August as this Coulee peak. Adjacent is adjacent.

The shoulder fileprices Reclamation dates, not a borrowed March. Use it when a packet treats Soap Lake as this dam. n of 31 is a small scrape, not a metro catalog. AirROI Low on that cell is a scrape, not Grant County Title 15. Quote $12,335 as Soap Lake. Quote your books as your books. A neighbor year is context. It is not coverage, and it shouldn't be blended with Moses Lake's figure. Do not file it as the pin.

Moses Lake $28,114 Does Not Travel North

Moses Lake, same vintage, prints a typical year of $28,114, ADR of $317, occupancy of 34.7 percent, RevPAR of $115, and n of 109. Peak month is August. Lowest revenue is February. Year over year is minus 7.2 percent. Professionally managed share is 9.2 percent, Evolve on nine listings. About 27.5 percent of those cards set a 30-plus night gate. Those figures travel together as Moses Lake. They do not travel north to the dam. They do not become a Grant County average because both towns sit in the same county.

Hosts keep asking for a midpoint between $12,335 and $28,114. This file will not mint one. Mixing the two cells is how a lender packet starts lying. Moses Lake occupancy of 34.7 percent is not Coulee occupancy. RevPAR of $115 is not Coulee RevPAR. n of 109 is a different sample from Soap Lake's 31. Keep the two lists on their own desks. If last year on this house printed higher, that is your T12. If it printed lower, that is also your T12. A county mash is not a year.

The remote-stay fileis the 30-night product without borrowing Moses Lake's 27.5 percent gate as occupancy. Use it when a shop dashboard offers a monthly setting as if that were a filled winter. A setting is not a year. Drive time from Moses Lake is not a shared inventory. Quote $28,114 as Moses Lake. Leave $12,335 on Soap Lake. Leave the 404 on this market. Don't blend the two figures together. Do not travel the larger cell north.

Electric City Sits Next Door and Has Its Own Hall

Electric City is adjacent, not a second Grand Coulee caption. City Hall is at 10 Stevens Avenue. The City Clerk is. Washington DOR city endorsement starts at $60 to originate and $25 to renew. Home occupation is $60 and $25 under ECMC 18.40.025. Local press says the city banned short-term rentals about 2019 and considered allowing them again in July 2022. Confirm 2026 status at City Hall. Do not publish the 2019 ban as live law. Do not publish a 2022 draft as live allow.

Steamboat Rock State Park sits on that side of the water: 5,043 acres, about 50,000 feet of freshwater shoreline, 51052 Highway 155, Electric City, WA 99123. The basalt butte rises about 800 feet above Banks Lake. That park is demand you can date. It is not an Electric City T12. A tile that says Grand Coulee and a driveway that sits in Electric City is already wrong on the first screen. A park acreage is not the clerk. Confirm 2026 short-term status before you advertise an Electric City stay. Do not treat 5,043 acres as a permit.

The clerks filekeeps Grand Coulee, Electric City, and unincorporated Grant County on separate lines. Use it when a seller's memo treats the two cities as one hall. before you advertise an Electric City stay. before you advertise a Grand Coulee city stay. x3045 before you advertise an unincorporated Grant County stay. Three doors. Zero mash. The driveway decides. Write the hall into the listing before the first night.

Open Field Is Not a Gold Mine

There is no published Grand Coulee listing count to brag about. Rank-file notes that no national property manager is confirmed on this market. That note is a gap in the scrape, not a measured zero on the neighbor cells. Soap Lake already prints 6.5 percent professionally managed. Moses Lake prints 9.2 percent. Do not treat those shares as this dam. Do not treat the missing cell as proof you are the only card. Modest open field means the competitive set is thin and unpublished. It does not mean the dam will print a gold-mine year.

Scarcity is a clerk question first. Grand Coulee still has to be called. Electric City still has to be called. Unincorporated Grant County still requires the Transient Residence path under GCC Title 15. A thin field does not skip Title 15. A thin field does not skip RCW 64.37.050 insurance. Homeowners insurance does not meet that statute. Operating without the county permit on unincorporated land is enforcement. Open field is how this market actually lists. It is not a promise a new card will earn because August was busy at the laser.

The DIY versus hire fileweighs the gap against generic lake copy. Use it when a shop email treats no logo as a crisis. Independent hosts still write most of what a guest reads on a 404 pin. The risk is a Seattle mash and a costume year, not a missing brand. Write the dam yourself. Hire if the tile still says generic Eastern Washington lake after you have tried. A missing AirROI cell is not a reason to invent occupancy.

How a Host Should Read a Modest Desk

Start with the address, not with a region. If the driveway is City of Grand Coulee, call City Hall at. If the driveway is City of Electric City, call. If the driveway sits outside both lines, you are in unincorporated Grant County and you need Deputy Fire Marshal Beach at x3045. Coulee City is if the survey says Coulee City. Coulee Dam is another town. Do not mash those doors. Seattle rules do not travel. A DOR city license is not a year.

Then read the facts in order. There is no Grand Coulee AirROI year. Soap Lake is $12,335 on n of 31, occupancy 24.5 percent, peak August, hole in March. Moses Lake is $28,114 on n of 109, occupancy 34.7 percent, peak August, hole in February. These two lists shouldn't be blended into one. Laser season is May 22 through September 30, 2026. Tours hold through October 31. Banks Lake sits behind Dry Falls Dam. Steamboat Rock is Electric City. Dry Falls is 400 feet and 3.5 miles. Those sentences are the market.

The marketing fileis the copy job after you accept that list.The startup fileprices the clerk path. Tell the truth on the tile. Name Grand Coulee or Electric City, Grant County. Name the dam if you can walk it. Name Banks Lake if you can launch. Leave Seattle off the first screen. Leave an invented Coulee year off the lender packet. Pin the 404 and the clerk the driveway actually has.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the typical Airbnb year in Grand Coulee or Banks Lake in 2026?

AirROI 404s on Grand Coulee, Electric City, Coulee City, Coulee Dam, and Ephrata. This file will not invent a typical year, ADR, occupancy, or listing count for the pin. Soap Lake prints $12,335, $242, 24.5 percent occupancy, and n of 31. Moses Lake prints $28,114, $317, 34.7 percent, and n of 109. Quote those cities as cities. Quote your own books as your books.

Can I average Soap Lake $12,335 with Moses Lake $28,114 for a Coulee year?

The two AirROI cells stay apart. Don't mint a Grand Coulee T12 by blending $12,335 with $28,114 — they're separate figures. Mixing them is how a lender packet starts lying. Underwrite the driveway you actually hold. If last year on this house printed a different number, that number is your T12, not a blended Grant County year.

What does Grand Coulee Dam visitor traffic measure?

It measures visitor traffic at a Bureau of Reclamation site, not host T12. There is no Grand Coulee AirROI year to divide those visits by. A day-tripper at the Visitor Center is not an occupied bedroom. Laser nights run May 22 through September 30, 2026, about thirty minutes, free. Do not treat start times as occupancy. Quote the dam as demand you can date.

How far is Grand Coulee from Spokane, and does Seattle law apply?

The pin is eighty-five to one hundred minutes from Spokane via US-2 and SR-155. That drive is origin, not identity. Seattle short-term rental rules do not travel here. Unincorporated Grant County Fire Marshal is x3045. The pin is Grand Coulee and Banks Lake in Grant County, eighty-five to one hundred minutes from Spokane via US-2 and SR-155.

When is the Grand Coulee Dam laser show in 2026?

One River, Many Voices runs May 22 through September 30, 2026. The show is about thirty minutes, free, and needs no ticket. Keys plant tours run Friday through Sunday May 22 through October 31. Those dates are visitor season, not a T12. One River, Many Voices is the 2026 laser: May 22 through September 30, about thirty minutes, free.

Is Electric City the same market and clerk as Grand Coulee?

Electric City is adjacent and has its own hall at, 10 Stevens Avenue. DOR city endorsement is $60 to originate and $25 to renew. Local press cites a 2019 ban and a 2022 review. Confirm 2026 status at City Hall. Do not publish the 2019 ban as live law. Steamboat Rock State Park sits at 51052 Highway 155 in Electric City.

What does Soap Lake occupancy of 24.5 percent measure?

It measures occupancy on the Soap Lake AirROI cell, n of 31, for August 2025 through July 2026, not Grand Coulee and not Banks Lake. That cell also prints $12,335, ADR $242, RevPAR $58, peak August, and a March hole. Year over year is minus 25.8 percent. Quote the whole desk as Soap Lake. Soap Lake, updated August 8, 2026 for August 2025 through July 2026, prints $12,335, ADR $242, occupancy 24.5 percent, RevPAR $58, and n of 31.

Is an open field a gold-mine year at the dam?

There is no published Grand Coulee listing count. Rank-file no national manager is a scrape gap, not a measured zero on the neighbors. Soap Lake already prints 6.5 percent professionally managed. Moses Lake prints 9.2 percent. Modest open field is the supply story. It is not a reason to invent occupancy or skip Grant County Title 15.