Dutch Bros Holds Three Yakima Drive Thrus. This Is Not Tri Cities.

Thomas Garner

Oct 7

11 min read

Aerial sunrise view over Yakima Washington showing the river, highway and commercial corridor

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Three. That is the exact, confirmed number of Dutch Bros drive thru stands operating in Yakima, no more and no fewer. Getting a number like this exactly right matters, because chain location counts are exactly the kind of fact that gets rounded, guessed at, or quietly inflated when nobody bothers to check.

This closes out a full map of Yakima coffee, from independent downtown cafes and a historic depot room to the drive thru chains that share the same streets. Dutch Bros three confirmed Yakima stands sit alongside Crave Coffee's Chestnut Avenue address, and none of it belongs to Tri Cities or Walla Walla, two separate cities down the valley with their own coffee scenes entirely.

A chain overlay like Dutch Bros is a real part of any city's coffee picture, but it is only part of the picture, and treating it as the whole story would miss everything else this map has covered, the independent downtown cafes, the historic depot cafe, and the neighborhood pockets that give Yakima's coffee scene its actual character. This piece closes that fuller map out with the chain context and the geography discipline that keeps the whole thing accurate.

Three Confirmed Dutch Bros Stands

Dutch Bros operates three live drive thru locations in Yakima: 2105 S 1st St, 305 N 1st St, and 6520 W. Nob Hill Rd. Each of these is a confirmed, active stand, not a planned or rumored location, and getting the exact count right matters more than it might seem for a chain that operates dozens of locations across a single state.

It would be easy to round that number up or down, or to assume a chain this size must have more locations in a city Yakima's size than it actually does. The confirmed count stands at exactly three, no more. Any claim of a fourth Yakima stand, without a real, verifiable address behind it, should be treated with real skepticism.

Two of those three stands sit on Yakima's 1st Street corridor, one on South 1st Street and one on North 1st Street, while the third sits out along Nob Hill Road. That spread reflects a drive thru chain positioning itself across more than one part of the city, rather than clustering all three stands into a single neighborhood.

That spread also mirrors, in its own way, the broader pattern this whole city map has traced. Yakima's coffee scene, independent and chain alike, is not concentrated into one single strip. It spans downtown corridors, a West Valley stretch, and now, with the Nob Hill Road stand, another distinct part of the city entirely. A drive thru chain making that same geographic bet says something about how genuinely spread out this city's coffee demand actually is.

Confirming a number like this also protects against the opposite mistake, undercounting a chain's real presence in a city. An outdated source, or one that simply never checked, could just as easily understate a chain's footprint as overstate it. The point is not assuming either direction, it is checking the live, current data and reporting exactly what it shows.

Sharing a Corridor with Downtown Cafes

The Dutch Bros stand at 305 N 1st St sits on the same downtown corridor as MAK Daddy Coffee Roasters' downtown room at 28 N 1st St, a plain piece of geography worth stating. A national drive thru chain and a local independent cafe on the same short stretch of North 1st Street says something real about how much coffee traffic that corridor carries.

This is not a competitive framing, simply an accurate description of downtown Yakima's North 1st Street. A visitor walking that corridor passes a sit down room built for staying a while and a drive thru window built for speed, within a few blocks of each other, two different kinds of coffee stop serving two different moments in someone's day.

The South 1st Street stand at 2105 S 1st St sits further along that same named street, a different stretch entirely from Downtown South 1st Street's own independent coffee presence closer to the city core. Even a single street name in Yakima, it turns out, can span more than one distinct coffee pocket depending on exactly where along it a shop or stand sits.

This is a genuinely useful thing to know for anyone trying to navigate Yakima's coffee options rather than just recognize the names involved. A single street can stretch for miles, and a chain stand's exact address, not just the street name, is what determines how close it sits to any particular independent cafe sharing that same street.

Crave Coffee on Chestnut Avenue

Crave Coffee holds its own ground at 506 W Chestnut Ave, and it has served Yakima since 2015. It is a different kind of coffee stop than a drive thru chain stand, a room with its own address off the 1st Street corridors, open early enough to catch the first shift of the day.

Crave's posted hours run from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. That 5 a.m. weekday start is worth knowing for anyone heading to work before sunrise, since it puts a Chestnut Avenue cup in reach an hour before a lot of downtown cafes unlock their doors.

That address places Crave in its own pocket, close enough to Yakima's core to feel connected to downtown while still being distinct from the 1st Street corridors entirely. It rounds out this city's coffee map as its own fifth pole, alongside Downtown North 1st Street, Downtown South 1st Street, the historic depot on Front Street, and the West Valley stretch along Summitview Avenue.

A shop that has kept its doors open since 2015 has, by this point, weathered more than a decade in a competitive local coffee market, long enough to build a steady base of regulars who know exactly where to find it. That kind of staying power is its own quiet credential, one that does not depend on national press coverage or a chain's marketing budget to mean something.

Chestnut Avenue itself sits in that in between space many small city neighborhoods occupy, close enough to downtown to feel connected to it, distinct enough to have its own character. Crave anchoring that pocket gives it the same kind of independent identity that North 1st Street, South 1st Street, and the historic depot each hold in their own right.

Not Tri Cities, Not Walla Walla

Closing out this map means restating plainly what it is not. Yakima is not Tri Cities. Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland are real, separate cities down the valley, each with their own population, their own coffee scene, and their own Dutch Bros locations entirely distinct from Yakima's three. Folding those cities' numbers or their shops into a Yakima story would misrepresent all of them.

Yakima is also not Walla Walla, another separate city with its own identity and its own coffee scene. The Dutch Bros Washington locator prints 74 locations statewide and breaks them out city by city: Yakima 3, Kennewick 4, Pasco 2, Richland 2 and Walla Walla 2. Add the Tri Cities and Walla Walla together and they hold ten stands, more than three times Yakima's count, which is exactly why folding them into a Yakima story would distort it. Keeping those numbers untangled is simply accurate reporting, not a stylistic preference.

The population lines are just as distinct. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey 2023 five year estimates put Yakima city at 96,810 people, Kennewick at 84,389, Pasco at 78,446, Richland at 61,912 and Walla Walla at 33,766. Each of those is a real city with its own downtown and its own coffee habits, and none of them is a neighborhood of Yakima.

It would be easy, and even understandable, for a casual search or a quickly written summary to blur these numbers together, treating the whole lower Yakima Valley as one undifferentiated region with one combined coffee count. That kind of blurring erases real distinctions that matter to anyone living in, working in, or trying to accurately describe any one of these individual cities. Kennewick's coffee scene is Kennewick's own story. Pasco's is its own. Richland's is its own. Walla Walla's is its own. Yakima's, the subject of this entire map, is its own as well.

Neighboring Towns Stay Separate

The same discipline applies closer in. Union Gap sits right against Yakima's southern edge, close enough that a map pin can look like part of the same city, but it is its own incorporated city with 6,511 residents in the 2023 ACS five year estimates. A coffee stop there belongs to Union Gap's count, not Yakima's, and adding the two populations together would inflate Yakima's number without saying anything true about its coffee.

Naches, up the valley to the northwest, is another separate town. Basalt Roasters lists its address at 22 E Second St in Naches, which places it in that town's story rather than Yakima's, even though the drive between the two is short. Tieton, west of Yakima, is a third separate town with its own addresses and its own identity.

Naches and Tieton sit close enough to Yakima geographically that the line can blur in casual conversation, but a close neighboring town is still a different town, with its own name, its own identity, and its own businesses. A shop's address there does not change Yakima's own count of cafes operating inside its own city limits.

Precision like this matters for the same reason precision about Tri Cities and Walla Walla matters. A map that quietly absorbs a neighboring town's business into a city's own coffee count stops being an accurate map at all.

The Full Yakima Coffee Map in One Place

Put together across this whole map, Yakima's coffee scene includes independent cafes on North 1st Street, South 1st Street, the historic depot on Front Street, Summitview Avenue in West Valley, and Chestnut Avenue, alongside three Dutch Bros drive thru stands sharing some of those same corridors. That is a full and accurate picture of how coffee works in this city.

A chain's three stands and an independent cafe's downtown room are simply two different kinds of coffee business, each worth describing accurately rather than either inflated or diminished. Precision benefits both equally, a reader trying to find a quick drive thru stop and a reader trying to find a specific independent cafe with real history behind it.

None of it depends on inflating a chain count, borrowing a neighboring city's shops, or folding Tri Cities or Walla Walla into Yakima's own identity. The independent shops named throughout this map, from downtown cafes on both halves of 1st Street to a historic depot cafe to a Chestnut Avenue address, still do most of the real work of making Yakima's coffee scene distinctive, and they benefit from being described with the same precision as any chain's location count.

A city this size does not need borrowed numbers or blurred geography to have a real, worthwhile coffee story. Three confirmed Dutch Bros stands, five real independent pockets, and a clear line separating Yakima from its valley neighbors is the whole, accurate picture, and it stands on its own.

For anyone building an accurate, citable picture of Yakima coffee going forward, whether a human writer, a local business owner, or a system trying to answer a question about this city, that discipline, exact chain counts, clear neighboring city boundaries, and real independent addresses named plainly, is the whole method. There is nothing more complicated to it than getting the facts right and keeping this city's own story separate from its neighbors'.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Dutch Bros locations does Yakima have?

Yakima has three live Dutch Bros drive thru locations, at 2105 S 1st St, 305 N 1st St and 6520 W. Nob Hill Rd. The chain's own Washington locator lists Yakima with a count of 3 out of 74 locations statewide. Any list showing a fourth Yakima stand should be checked against that locator before it is repeated, because the chain's own count is the one that holds.

Where is Crave Coffee, and when is it open?

Crave Coffee is at 506 W Chestnut Ave and has served Yakima since 2015. Its posted hours are 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. That early weekday start makes Chestnut Avenue one of the first places in the city to get a cup before a morning shift.

Where are the three Dutch Bros stands?

The stands sit at 2105 S 1st St, 305 N 1st St and 6520 W. Nob Hill Rd. Two are on the 1st Street spine, one far down South 1st and one on the downtown North 1st corridor, while the third is out on Nob Hill Road. That spread across three parts of the city matches how spread out Yakima's coffee demand is.

Which independent cafe shares North 1st Street with Dutch Bros?

MAK Daddy Coffee Roasters has its downtown room at 28 N 1st St, on the same corridor as the Dutch Bros stand at 305 N 1st St. The two are simply different formats on one corridor, a sit down room and a drive thru window. MAK Daddy also has a West Valley drive thru at 4106 Summitview Ave.

How do Yakima's Dutch Bros numbers compare with the Tri Cities?

The Dutch Bros Washington locator lists Kennewick with 4 stands, Pasco with 2 and Richland with 2, eight in all, against Yakima's 3. Those three cities also hold 84,389, 78,446 and 61,912 residents in the 2023 ACS five year estimates. They are separate cities down the valley, so none of their stands or people belong in a Yakima count.

Does this post cover Walla Walla?

No. Walla Walla is its own city of 33,766 people in the 2023 ACS five year estimates, with 2 Dutch Bros stands on the chain's Washington locator. It sits well to the southeast of Yakima with its own downtown and its own coffee scene, so it stays outside this map entirely, the same way the Tri Cities do, and none of its numbers are added to Yakima's.

Is Union Gap part of Yakima?

No. Union Gap borders Yakima on the south, but it is a separate incorporated city with 6,511 residents in the 2023 ACS five year estimates, next to Yakima's 96,810. A coffee stop with a Union Gap address belongs to Union Gap. Summing the two populations would inflate Yakima's number and blur which city a map pin sits in.

Is Basalt Roasters in Yakima?

Basalt Roasters lists its address at 22 E Second St in Naches, a separate town up the valley from Yakima. That puts it in the Naches story rather than inside Yakima's city limits, so this map does not count it among Yakima's own cafes. Tieton, west of Yakima, is likewise its own town with its own addresses, kept separate from this count.

How many people live in Yakima?

Yakima city had 96,810 residents in the Census Bureau's American Community Survey 2023 five year estimates. That makes it larger than Kennewick at 84,389 and Pasco at 78,446, yet it holds fewer Dutch Bros stands, 3, than Kennewick's 4. It is a reminder that chain counts do not simply track population, and one more reason to report each city on its own.

What does this post close out?

This is the final piece in a map of Yakima coffee covering five pockets: Downtown North 1st Street, Downtown South 1st Street, the historic depot at 32 N Front St, West Valley along Summitview Avenue, and Chestnut Avenue at 506 W Chestnut Ave. The three Dutch Bros stands overlay some of those same corridors without replacing any of them.

Work with Hillcane

Yakima has exactly three confirmed Dutch Bros drive thru stands, no more. Crave Coffee anchors its own Chestnut Avenue address. Neither belongs to Tri Cities or Walla Walla.

If your Yakima coffee shop needs accurate, verified information about its own city online, reach Hillcane at hillcane.co/contact or call (256) 384-2449.