The Esso is the perfect place to fill up. Couldn't be any closer to the trail.

Atwood has a municipal parking lot.  Usually put a sign up for no parking if there is a rental at the community center for No Parking.  But you don't know that till the day you get there.  The gas station across the road has room for a few trucks and trailers, and usually doesn't mind  (be polite fill up when you get back there).  Right on the trail.

My search for prime parking is continuous year round . Recent finds have been in Listowel  , Clifford and Stratford .  Scratched Teviotdale the restaurant sucks .

Everything can be a battle, if you do not look for a solution or direction to avoid that. I remember the benefits of arriving to park and ride for 7/8AM is you got a parking spot, trails were quiet, picked up around 11'ish and by noon/1PM you had 100 miles on, packed it up to head home as the crazies started to come around every other corner. 

too excited to get on the trail and a one track mind I guess. By product of less snow these days is the parking lots have more parking area vs. snow staging areas....lol.