Bear Lake: Friday matches Saturday’s Booked Occupancy (Nov 2–8, 2026)

Bear Lake short-term rentals for Nov 2–8, 2026: Friday matches Saturday’s highest Booked Occupancy. See why both nights warrant attention.

Updated November 2, 2026

Should Saturday get most of your weekend attention in Bear Lake, Utah? For Nov 2–8, 2026, Friday gives Hosts & Operators an equally important night to investigate before making Saturday the focus.

Friday and Saturday share the highest citywide Booked Occupancy in Bear Lake for stays November 2, 2026–November 8, 2026. Wheelhouse data as of October 27, 2026 shows Friday, November 6, 2026, at 9.8% Booked Occupancy and Saturday, November 7, 2026, at 9.8% Booked Occupancy.

Wheelhouse data shows Friday matching Saturday’s Booked Occupancy despite Saturday’s higher Asking Rate.

Friday shares the weekend lead

Saturday, Nov 7, has the week’s highest Asking Rate at $414, compared with Friday’s $412 on Nov 6. Yet its Booked Occupancy is identical to Friday’s. The higher Asking Rate is therefore not accompanied by higher Booked Occupancy in this observation.

The weekend distinction is clearer on Sunday, Nov 8: Booked Occupancy is 6.0% and Asking Rate is $368. Sunday has more time remaining until arrival than Friday and Saturday. Treating the entire weekend as a single pricing question would overlook these different readings.

The researched local calendar offers limited help explaining the concentration on Friday and Saturday. The CVB’s November 2026 calendar displayed zero listed events on each date from November 2 through November 8. This describes that calendar’s listings, not whether other events occur. The strongest basis for this week’s focus is the observed pattern itself, rather than a named local occasion.

Bear LakeData as of Oct 27, 2026

Bear Lake · citywide context

Nights already reserved at the snapshot date, not final occupancy.

November 3, 2026

Nov 3, 2026 – Nov 3, 2026 · Snapshot Oct 27, 2026

Booked occupancy
4.8%
Asking rate (USD)
$366

Wheelhouse citywide data. Booked Occupancy is the share of nights already reserved for each stay date; Asking Rates are advertised nightly prices, fees included. Compare with rentals like yours before acting on it.

Source: About Wheelhouse Market Reports

Home size gives the Asking Rates useful context

The citywide weekend Asking Rates are a starting point, not a property benchmark. Wheelhouse’s separate monthly view for November 2026, as of October 27, 2026, places the median Asking Rate for 3 bedrooms in the $235 to under $240 band and for 5 bedrooms in the $400 to under $405 band.

That spread makes property selection important when investigating Friday and Saturday. These monthly bedroom bands cover a different window from the weekly stay-date comparison; they provide price context without assigning either bedroom group the citywide Booked Occupancy pattern.

Bear Lake · November 2026 stays

What a night costs

Monthly asking rates, including fees. The shaded span runs between the reported quartile bands; the dark band contains the median.

The all-homes median falls between $280 and under $285.

All homes$280 to under $285
0 bedrooms$155 to under $160
1 bedroom$130 to under $135
2 bedrooms$165 to under $170
3 bedrooms$235 to under $240
4 bedrooms$290 to under $295
5 bedrooms$400 to under $405

Showing 0–5 bedrooms · larger homes available below

As of Oct 27, 2026

Methodology and source

November 2026 stays. The source supplies percentile bins, not exact prices. The shaded span uses their outer boundaries.

Asking rates include fees and are advertised prices, not achieved ADR or a property rate recommendation.

Bedroom groups follow the market report, including its actual top group. Report listing counts describe group inventory, not the number of price observations. No additional bedroom groups are inferred or combined.

Retrieved Nov 2, 2026

Source: Wheelhouse market data

Your weekday history can decide where to focus

Last year’s November 2025 pattern adds booking-window context: the median listing-average lead time fell in the 20–25 days range. That historical view helps frame a review of when listings were typically booked, while the current snapshot answers which stay dates have the highest Booked Occupancy.

Use Wheelhouse Performance Analytics to examine your bookings for Friday, Nov 6, against past Fridays and Saturday, Nov 7, against past Saturdays, checked the same number of days before arrival with the same nights open for booking. If Friday is stronger against its own weekday history while Saturday is typical, shift attention toward Friday; if the reverse holds, concentrate on Saturday. Until that property-level comparison distinguishes them, the citywide evidence supports keeping both nights in focus.

Bear Lake · Lead time

Last year’s booking window: November 2025 stays

Listings in rangeCumulative listings
Share in rangeCumulative share0.0%0%4.5%25%9.0%50%13.5%75%18.0%100%0–525–3050–5575–80100–105125–130150–155175–180200–205225–230250–255275–280300–305325–330350–355Average lead time per listing (days)

Select a bar to inspect it. Use arrow keys to move between ranges. Scroll horizontally on smaller screens.

0–5 days
In range 16.6%Cumulative 16.5%
16.6% of listings averaged more than 0 days and up to 5 days of lead time;16.5% averaged at most 5 days.

As of Oct 27, 2026

Methodology and source

Nov 2025 stays · Retrieved Nov 2, 2026

Wheelhouse Market Report lead-time distribution for the same stay month a year earlier, after all of its stays were complete. Each listing contributes its average booking lead time: a bar is the share of listings whose average falls in that day range, and the line is the share at or below it. It describes listings, not individual reservations, and is last year’s pattern rather than this year’s bookings or a forecast.

Source: Wheelhouse market data

Each listing contributes its average booking lead time. This is a distribution of listing averages, not individual reservations. Contributing listing count is not supplied.

Ranges exclude the lower bound and include the upper bound. Negative API days are interpreted as days before arrival for this preview. Cumulative shares complement the original percentiles in reverse order. Rounded bar shares may not sum to exactly 100%.

How Wheelhouse measures this

Wheelhouse Market Reports track bookings and advertised prices across short-term rental listings in Bear Lake. This article uses Wheelhouse data as of October 27, 2026.

Booked Occupancy is the share of nights already reserved for each stay date as of October 27, 2026. Asking Rate is the nightly price listings advertise for each date, fees included.

The bedroom chart uses monthly asking-rate distributions for November 2026, including fees. Quartiles and medians are price bands, not exact prices. Bedroom groups follow the source report. These price distributions do not establish bedroom-specific occupancy.

The lead-time chart shows last year’s booking window for the same month: how far ahead listings were booked on average.

Sources

Figures come from Wheelhouse Market Reports, dated as shown in this article.

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