Originally Posted by
ColorChange
If you purchase a yummy snack from the measuring cup you can use their rest room right near there. You can also stop at Main Street bicycles just a touch North of there and use their washroom at no charge. Jeff (owner) is a good guy.
TMC is absolutely the best stop to shop anywhere on the trail. Breakfast there is good. The baked goods are better.
If you have a lock, other places you might be able to stop are the Elgin library, the riverboat. Just south of where the path crosses the river (at the top of the hill) there's a bathroom in the forest preserve right off the trial. South of there, there's starbucks in St chas (can't miss it, you have to pass it), Caribou in Geneva (two blocks west of the river at the train bridge)...
South of there, the bathroom in Fabyan is open. Then there's the Panera in Batavia...
Really, though, I've never had a problem relieving myself on the trail, and rare ever done so at an "offical" rest stop.