The Peninsula Trails Coalition is bringing back a favorite for a new year.

The PTC once again hosts its New Year’s Discovery 5K &10K Run/Walk Fundraiser at the Discovery Bay Golf Course in Port Townsend.

Start time for the fifth-annual event is 11 a.m. on Jan. 1. The race begins at the golf course clubhouse, 7401 Cape George Road.

Cost is $30 for either the 5k or 10k through Dec. 30 or $35 on the day of the race.

Register at secure.getmeregistered.com/get_information.php?event_id=125772.

Proceeds from the event benefit the effort by the coalition to help accumulate grant match funds for the extension of the Olympic Discovery Trail from Discovery Bay through the Quim- per Peninsula to connect with the Larry Scott Memorial Trail.

Similar fundraisers held this year include the Longest Day of Trails Runs on the Summer Solstice in June and the Freddy Pink Band concert and silent auction held in October.

Jeff​ Selby, vice president of the Peninsula Trails​ Coalition, said great progress has been made in the effort to connect the Olympic Discovery Trail in Jefferson County with existing sections in Clallam County.

Jefferson County received $1 million in funding to hire a professional consultant to determine the optimum route from the current end of the Larry Scott Memorial Trail near the Four Corners intersection to Discovery Bay, to acquire the land and to begin engineering design work.

Other progress along the route of the cross-peninsula trail includes construction early next year on the section of the Olympic Discovery Trail rounding the southern tip of Discovery Bay, work on the Miller Peninsula on a Jefferson/Clallam County line trailhead and parking area, definition of the trail route in the Joyce area and the completion of the crossing of Highway 101 west of Lake Crescent.

Also in the works is the restoration of the 450-foot McFee tunnel on the Spruce Railroad Trail on the north shore of Lake Crescent.