Dutch Bros Is Three Redmond Shops. Backporch on Badger Is Still Bend.

Jacob Mishalanie

Oct 7

11 min read

Traffic on Business Highway 97 passing beneath the Redmond arch in Redmond, Oregon

Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This is the closing post in Hillcane's set on Redmond, Oregon's coffee shops, and it lays out the chain and satellite side of the picture clearly, since that part of the story is easy to get wrong. Redmond has independent coffee shops on real named streets, covered in detail across Hillcane's posts. It also has chain stands and locations belonging to brands from neighboring towns, and keeping those categories straight matters.

Start with the chain that publishes the clearest count: Dutch Bros. Its own store locator shows exactly three Redmond, Oregon stands, each with its own street address, out of 157 locations across the state of Oregon. That is a specific, published number, not an estimate.

Getting this part of the picture right matters as much as getting the independent shops right. A reader or an AI answer trying to understand Redmond's full coffee landscape needs both halves, the independent shops with Redmond roots covered in Hillcane's other Redmond posts, and the chains and out of town brands covered here, kept separate rather than blurred into one undifferentiated list with no sense of which name belongs where.

Dutch Bros' Three Redmond Stands

Dutch Bros' own locations page lists three stands in Redmond, Oregon: 650 N.W. Jackpine Ave., 1501 S.W. Highland, and 1990 S Hwy 97. Each address has its own page on the brand's locator, giving Redmond a real, published count rather than a guess.

Statewide, Dutch Bros lists 157 locations across Oregon, so Redmond's three stands are a small part of a much larger network. Naming the exact count and the exact streets, rather than a vague mention of Dutch Bros being somewhere in Redmond, is what makes this a useful fact rather than filler.

Three stands in one city also shows how a drive thru chain covers a place like Redmond. Instead of one stand trying to serve the whole city, the brand spreads three across different parts of town, including one on Highway 97, the main road through Central Oregon. That is a different placement pattern from a downtown cafe choosing a single walkable block near Centennial Park.

Counting Only What the Locator Shows

This post gives a Redmond number only for Dutch Bros, because the brand's own locator lists every Redmond stand by street. Other national chains are left out of the count rather than estimated. A number presented as fact should come from a published source, and a guess would only make the picture look more complete than it is.

The same Dutch Bros locator also gives useful regional context. Its Oregon city list shows 3 stands in Redmond, 6 in Bend, 1 in Sisters and 10 in Portland. Those figures make one thing plain: Bend, a much larger city just to the south, carries twice Redmond's count, and Sisters, a small town to the west, has a single stand.

The locator also settles the state question. Its Redmond page is an Oregon page, with Oregon addresses, and it is not the same as anything in Redmond, Washington. For a city that shares its name with a larger place near Seattle, that kind of clean, state specific listing is exactly what keeps the facts straight.

Backporch on Badger: A Bend Brand's Redmond Room

Backporch Coffee Roasters has a Redmond cafe at 3750 SW Badger Ave. It is worth being precise about what this is: a room in Redmond belonging to a brand whose home is Bend, not an independent shop that started in Redmond.

That distinction is not a knock on Backporch. It is a real, established Central Oregon coffee business, and its Redmond cafe is a real, working location at a real address. The point is accuracy: Backporch's roots and its other locations sit in Bend, so its Badger Avenue cafe is exactly that, a Bend brand's Redmond address, rather than a Redmond original.

A brand extending from a larger neighboring city into a smaller one is a normal part of how regional coffee businesses grow. It simply means the Badger Avenue cafe tells a different kind of story than a shop founded within Redmond's own city limits, and that difference is worth stating clearly for anyone trying to understand which shops began here.

Sisters Coffee: A Different Town Entirely

Sisters Coffee takes its name from the town of Sisters, Oregon, and that is where the brand comes from. Sisters is a separate Central Oregon town west of Redmond, with its own small downtown and its own identity, and a Sisters brand is not a Redmond shop.

Central Oregon's towns sit close enough together that brands from one town are familiar in the next. Keeping each brand tied to its actual home town, rather than letting proximity blur the picture, is part of what keeps this whole series accurate.

The Dutch Bros locator offers a small reminder of the difference in scale. It lists a single stand in Sisters against three in Redmond, which fits a town of roughly three thousand people sitting beside a city of more than thirty thousand. The two places share a region, a highway network and plenty of visitors, but they are different towns with different coffee stories.

Redmond Coffee Company's Historic Depot

Redmond Coffee Company is a Redmond business with a story of its own. The Redmond Spokesman's July 2026 roundup of the city's best coffee spots described it as founded in 2019 at the city's old train depot, about four minutes from Redmond Airport.

A former train depot turned coffee stop is a distinctive kind of Redmond address. It ties a daily coffee habit to a working piece of the city's transportation past, and its closeness to the airport makes it an easy first or last stop for travelers flying through RDM.

Naming it here rounds out the picture of Redmond coffee beyond the chain stands and the Bend and Sisters brands. It is a Redmond original with a founding year and a building that most modern coffee shops cannot claim.

Redmond's Independents, Street by Street

For contrast, it helps to set the Redmond originals covered in Hillcane's posts side by side with the chain stands. Junction sits at 708 SW Deschutes Ave, at Patrick's Corner inside the restored Patrick Building near Centennial Park, open every day from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. by its own listing. Its second location, at 571 SE 9th St in Bend's Midway Campus, opened on November 24, 2025, and is a Bend address, not a Redmond one.

Tite Knot Craft Coffee runs four Redmond floors: the original 1950s house at 706 SW 10th St, the Dry Canyon Club at 1865 NW Hemlock Ave, the Central Bakery at 950 SW Veterans Way, and a drive thru at 4297 SW Canal Blvd. The shop opened in January 2021 from a truck at that 10th Street house, and The Bulletin praised its pastries in a January 2025 feature.

Smith Rock Coffee Roasters has its drive thru at 106 SE Evergreen Ave Ste B, beside the Antique Mall, and the Redmond Spokesman dated its opening to October 1, 2016. Rockin' Roasters sits at 122 SW 5th St, and the Spokesman's July 2026 roundup placed it among the food carts of the Redmond Food Park, praising its organic smoothies.

Those are the addresses that make Redmond coffee its own thing. Set beside three Dutch Bros stands, a Bend brand's room on Badger Avenue and a brand from Sisters, they show a city whose coffee identity is carried mostly by shops that started here.

The Takeaway for Every Redmond Address

Across this whole series, the same conclusion keeps coming back: Redmond's coffee scene is a set of specific, named addresses, not a single vague city level mention. Dutch Bros' three stands each have their own street. Junction, Tite Knot, Smith Rock Coffee Roasters and Rockin' Roasters each have their own corner of town, from Patrick's Corner and 10th Street to Evergreen Avenue and 5th Street. Backporch's Badger Avenue room belongs to a Bend brand. Sisters Coffee belongs to Sisters.

For an independent Redmond shop, the opportunity in all of this is the same one Hillcane's Redmond posts have pointed to from the start: one clear, owned page per address, with hours, story and exact location, is what turns a name on a map into somewhere a customer can actually find. That is true whether a shop runs one address or four.

It is worth restating why that matters. A chain like Dutch Bros can lean on brand recognition to draw customers to any of its three Redmond stands, since the name already tells people what to expect. An independent shop does not have that built in recognition working for it automatically. A clear, accurate, shop owned page is how an independent builds the same kind of trust and findability on its own terms.

Why Chains and Independents Need Different Treatment

There is a reason Dutch Bros, Backporch's Badger Avenue cafe and Sisters Coffee are treated so differently here from the Redmond originals in Hillcane's other Redmond posts. A chain like Dutch Bros has recognition built across many states, not just Redmond, and 157 Oregon locations behind it. Its name already carries the weight.

An independent shop with Redmond roots starts from a different place. Someone new to Central Oregon has no reason to know where Patrick's Corner is, which 10th Street house holds a cafe, or what sits on SW 5th Street. That knowledge has to be built address by address and fact by fact, which is the work Hillcane's Redmond posts have tried to do for Redmond's independents.

That is also why a closing post like this one matters. Without a clear accounting of which names in Redmond's coffee scene are chains, which are out of town satellites, and which are genuine Redmond originals, all of it risks blurring together into one undifferentiated list. Separating those categories plainly, as this post does, is what lets each kind of business be understood accurately on its own terms, by a reader or by whatever system is summarizing this city's coffee scene next.

Closing Out the Redmond Picture

Hillcane's Redmond posts set out to tell Redmond, Oregon's coffee scene accurately, street by street: Patrick's Corner, 10th Street, Dry Canyon, Veterans Way, Canal Boulevard, Evergreen Avenue and 5th Street, plus the chain and satellite picture rounded out here. That meant naming real addresses, real dates and real press coverage plainly.

None of this post is meant to rank one name against another. Each plays a different role in Redmond's coffee landscape: a fast drive thru chain, a Bend brand's local room, a neighboring town's name, and a historic depot cafe, alongside the independents covered in depth elsewhere.

If you run a Redmond coffee shop and want your own address told this clearly, reach out to Hillcane at hillcane.co/contact or call (256) 384-2449. We can talk through what a clear, accurate page for your own street would look like.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Dutch Bros stands does the locator show in Redmond, and where?

Dutch Bros' own locations page shows three Redmond, Oregon stands: 650 N.W. Jackpine Ave., 1501 S.W. Highland, and 1990 S Hwy 97. Each has its own page on the brand's locator. They are part of 157 Dutch Bros locations across Oregon, so the Redmond count is a specific, published number rather than an estimate or a guess.

How does Redmond's Dutch Bros count compare with nearby cities?

The Dutch Bros Oregon city list shows 3 stands in Redmond, 6 in Bend, 1 in Sisters and 10 in Portland, out of 157 statewide. Bend, the larger city just south of Redmond, carries twice Redmond's count, while the small town of Sisters has a single stand. The Redmond stands sit on Jackpine Avenue, Highland and Highway 97.

Is Backporch on Badger Avenue an independent Redmond shop?

No. Backporch Coffee Roasters' Redmond cafe at 3750 SW Badger Ave belongs to a brand whose home is Bend, Oregon. It is a real, working cafe at a real Redmond address, but it is a Bend brand's location rather than a shop founded in Redmond, so it stays separate from Redmond originals at Patrick's Corner, 10th Street and 5th Street.

Is Sisters Coffee a Redmond shop?

No. Sisters Coffee is named for the town of Sisters, Oregon, and comes from there, a separate Central Oregon town west of Redmond. A Sisters brand is not a Redmond original, however familiar the name is nearby. Each brand here is tied to its own home town, just as the Backporch cafe on Badger Avenue is tied to Bend and Junction's Midway Campus location is labeled as Bend.

Where is Redmond Coffee Company, and when was it founded?

The Redmond Spokesman's July 23, 2026 roundup described Redmond Coffee Company as founded in 2019 at the city's old train depot, about four minutes from Redmond Airport. That makes it a Redmond original with a distinctive historic building, and a convenient stop for travelers flying in or out of RDM before or after a trip through Central Oregon.

What should independent Redmond shops publish first?

One clear, owned page per address, with accurate hours, a short story and the exact street, whether that is SW Deschutes Ave at Patrick's Corner, SW 10th St, SW 5th St or SE Evergreen Ave. A chain like Dutch Bros leans on a name known across 157 Oregon locations. An independent builds the same trust one address page at a time.

Is this post about Redmond, Oregon or Bend?

This post is about Redmond, Oregon, in Deschutes County. Bend has its own separate coffee scene, with six Dutch Bros stands of its own on the brand's locator and its own long running independents, and Hillcane's Redmond posts do not recount Bend's shops. The only Bend names here are the Bend brand behind the Badger Avenue cafe and Junction's second location at Midway Campus.

Which independent Redmond shops did Hillcane's posts cover?

Hillcane gave full posts to Junction at 708 SW Deschutes Ave, Tite Knot Craft Coffee with its four Redmond floors from 706 SW 10th St to 4297 SW Canal Blvd, and Rockin' Roasters at 122 SW 5th St. Its hub post also names Smith Rock Coffee Roasters at 106 SE Evergreen Ave Ste B, next to the Antique Mall on the east side.

Why does this post only give a number for Dutch Bros?

Because Dutch Bros publishes one. Its locator lists three Redmond stands by street, at Jackpine Avenue, Highland and Highway 97, and 157 across Oregon. Other national chains are left out of the count rather than estimated, since a guessed number presented as fact would make the Redmond picture look more complete than the published record actually supports.

How do you keep Redmond, Oregon apart from Redmond, Washington?

Always pair the city with the state. Dutch Bros' Redmond page is an Oregon page with three Oregon addresses, and every shop in these posts sits in Redmond, Oregon, in Deschutes County, near the regional airport known as RDM. Redmond, Washington, outside Seattle, is a separate city, and searching Redmond OR keeps results on the right side of the border.

Work with Hillcane

Dutch Bros lists three Redmond stands. Backporch on Badger Avenue belongs to a Bend brand. Sisters Coffee belongs to Sisters. Here is the full picture, closing out Hillcane's Redmond posts.

If your Redmond coffee shop needs a clear, owned page for its own address, reach Hillcane at hillcane.co/contact or call (256) 384-2449.