This weekend, Pembroke will celebrate the inclusion of town land in a recreation trail that stretches across the eastern part of the state.

The Pembroke Bay Circuit Trail, a 5.25-mile route that winds through property including the Veterans Commemorative Town Forest and the Tubb’s Meadow Preserve, will be dedicated at 10 a.m. Saturday near the meadow entrance on Monroe Street.

The dedication will mark the formal connection of Pembroke to the Bay Circuit Trail and Greenway, a 200-mile permanent recreation trail that extends from Newburyport to Duxbury.

The event brings to fruition years of effort. Pembroke Bay Circuit Trail Committee Chairwoman Marie Peeler said she began work on the project in August 2005, reviving an earlier effort.

Peeler said her group has received extensive support from the town’s conservation commission, public works department, board of selectmen and public library.

“It’s been a great lesson for me in how a New England town goes about getting something very positive done,” said Peeler, who moved here from Los Angeles in 1999.

The Pembroke trail starts at the Hanson line on Maquan Street and ends at the town forest parking area on School Street. Sixty-two percent of the trail is “off-road.”

A temporary route on School Street will connect Pembroke to the Bay Circuit Trail in Kingston.

Most of the Pembroke route takes advantage of previously established trails. The only place where volunteers had to start from scratch was on a parcel between Route 36 and Tubb’s Meadow. Josh Bourke cleared a quarter-acre there for his Eagle Scout project.

Resident Chuck Lathrop, who led the effort to mark the Pembroke Bay Circuit Trail, will oversee maintenance of the trail, Peeler said.