An officially designated exception begins at US 371 (Olive Street) in Waldo, and a concurrency of 1.12 miles (1.80 km).

[2] The highway forms a concurrency with US 79 briefly north before turning east then south.

AR 98 continues south through the community of Village before intersecting US 82 in east Columbia County.

Now turning west the route passes through Emerson where it intersects US 79 and becomes Main Street.

This highway was deleted in 1929, and is now AR 179 and Kirk Road, while the bridge over the Arkansas River has since been destroyed.