It travels north on Enos Lane through rural farmland and a local raceway as SR 43 quickly crosses I-5.

Then, after a mile after intersecting 7th Standard Road, the road name changes to Beech Ave. At the intersection of Los Angeles St., Beech Ave., and Santa Fe Way, SR 43 angles northwest, running parallel to the BNSF tracks.

Before intersecting Lerdo Highway, which serves Minter Field, the road expands to four lanes.

In 1959, a second disconnected segment was added that ran from the Kings County Line to LRN 4 (currently SR 99) near Selma.

Developers are interested in building distribution warehouses in Kings County because of its strategic location midway between the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas, but they are currently turned off by the lack of freeway access.

However, Kings County voters have shown little interest in passing any transportation taxes to fund these projects.

[8] 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.