1st Place: Phoenix Park Trailhead
2nd Place: Racy’s
3rd Place: The Red Room

After you get done noshing and tipping back those specialty drinks, ruminate on the experience in comfort and cleanliness.  Despite the hike from the pavilion, the Phoenix Park Trailhead is what a restroom should be – clean, spacious, virtually odor free, and wrapped in a Northwoodsy exterior. Racy D’lene’s is a dreamy powder room retreat. The subdued lighting and deep brick-red walls provide an enveloping calm under the cover of loud music and the white noise of industrial appliances. As a bonus, those in the know will pull out the notebook in the women’s room to check the latest entries and add their own thoughts. The Red Room has some distinctive accents like a lion’s head door handle, stall dividers made of doors turned on their sides, and the ever essential blackboard in the men’s room above the urinal. – Betty Rae Matthews

Really? The new $300,000 toilet we’re not building at the farmers market