In Working Class Central Oregon, a Hotel Devoted to Mindfulness

“Get out. Get lost.” A strange thing for a hotel to say to a guest, but the phrase stretches across the wall of the SCP Redmond lobby in letters eight inches high. The instructions do continue—”Get found. Life is good.”—making it clear that the aphorism is meant to inspire. Welcome to a hotel more devoted to mindfulness than room service.

Opened in a historic building in Redmond, Oregon, right before the pandemic began, SCP has singlehandedly recast the sleepy downtown. Some 17 miles north, the booming city of Bend has long overshadowed its smaller sibling, even if the two municipalities do share an airport. While

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