The highway serves Schriever Air Force Base and the towns of Ellicott, Yoder, and Rush, where it then crosses through rural country.

It then passes through more very rural country until it reaches a stop at US 40/287 west of the unincorporated town of Wild Horse.

"Garbage Hill" gets its name from the Colorado Springs landfill located north of the highway.

At the bottom of the hill, which is the eastern side of Jimmy Camp Creek valley, there are wrecking yards and two motocross tracks.

[2] In September 2020, the Colorado Department of Transportation began work on an $11 million construction project on the segment between US 24 and Enoch Road as part of a larger project to improve mobility for the military installations in the Colorado Springs metropolitan area to improve safety, including a westbound passing lane and a reverse jughandle intersection and traffic signal at Blaney Road South.