[3][4] Cecil Ashburn connects Hampton Cove and Jones Valley and provides an alternative way for people to get through, into, and out of Huntsville.

From the west, the road starts as Four Mile Post Road running through a dense residential neighborhood and runs pass Jones Family Park, Atwood Linear Park Greenway, and Valley Bend At Jones Farm.

Upon intersecting Carl T. Jones Drive and Bailey Cove Road, the road takes on the name Cecil Ashburn Drive where it widens to five lanes (one of those being the center turn lane) and travels through a strip building retail area until almost at the base of the mountain.

The road was built in the late 1990s and opened to traffic in January 2000[5] as a quick way for the fast-growing Hampton Cove subdivision to access Huntsville.

[3] In June 2012, one person died and four others were injured in a wreck near Avalon Drive,[8] the same location where two young women were killed in December 2011.

Once the roadwork improvements to Cecil Ashburn Drive are completed and it is converted into a divided highway, fatalities should be greatly reduced.