It connects Interstate 80 in Truckee with State Route 28 in Kings Beach on Lake Tahoe's shoreline.

In Placer County, it meets its east end at SR 28 in Kings Beach.

[3] The route from I-80 to Brockway Road is named the CHP Officer Glenn Carlson Memorial Bypass after CHP officer Glenn W. Carlson, who was killed along the route in 1963.

[4] Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage.

[5] Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted.