SEQUIM — The missing link may have been found.
In a report to the Sequim City Council on Monday, Liisa Fagerlund of the city’s parks advisory board explained how the Olympic Discovery Trail could at last be connected through eastern Sequim.
Direct it through town on Spruce Street.
Now, the City Council will consider the proposal.
A vote on the panel’s recommendation could come in one of the council’s next evening meetings, scheduled next Monday, and on July 14 and 28.
The sessions start at 6 p.m. in the Sequim Transit Center, 190 W. Cedar St.
The council has been stymied for years over a 1-mile gap in the walking-cycling-equestrian path, which draws people and other animals from across the North Olympic Peninsula and elsewhere.
They pedal, hike, walk dogs and ride horses on the trail into eastern Sequim, and they can head out west on it to Port Angeles.
Stretches of the trail are being built across both Clallam and Jefferson counties to eventually complete a non-motorized path from Port Townsend to the Pacific Ocean at LaPush.
But between Carrie Blake Park and Sequim Avenue, the Discovery Trail disappears.
City Council members have talked about paving a leg of the trail down Fir Street, the de facto route for many cyclists.
But property owners on that street objected, and the missing mile persisted.
Last month, Mayor Laura Dubois asked Fagerlund, an avid Discovery Trail denizen as well as a member of the parks advisory board, to take another look at the possibilities.
Fagerlund and parks advisory board chairwoman June Robinson brought together a panel of experts, Clallam County trail planner Rich James, Peninsula Trails Coalition president Chuck Preble and Sequim City Engineer Bill Bullock among them.
