The locally created Iron Ore Heritage Trail will follow CR 492 through Eagle Mills and Morgan Meadows upon completion.

The superintendent of the Marquette County Road Commission, Kenneth Ingalls Sawyer, painted the first rural highway centerline on the roadway on Dead Man's Curve.

The cemetery main gate is located near the city limits, where Maas Street ends and CR 492 continues into Negaunee Township.

[1][8] This is the site of the first tuberculosis sanatorium in the Upper Peninsula built in 1911; the facility is said to have been haunted before the main buildings were torn down around 2002.

[10] The road continues east through forested lands in Marquette Township, rounding Dead Man's Curve and running downhill into the Morgan Meadows area.

[12] The road curves north past these subdivisions, meeting the western end of CR 500 (Grove Street).

Further north, CR 492 intersects Brookton Road before the western segment terminates at US 41/M-28 in the middle of Marquette Township's commercial corridor.

The roadway leaves the commercial corridor and returns to woodland before the intersection with Forestville Road and Commerce Drive.

As Wright Street continues eastward, it runs through a residential section along part of the city line before completely crossing into Marquette.

The roadway passes the Holy Cross Cemetery and the north side of the campus of Northern Michigan University (NMU).

East of that intersection, CR 492 crosses onto the northern edge of NMU's campus immediately north of the Superior Dome.

[13][11] The first roadway along the route of the modern CR 492 was a plank road built by the Cleveland and Sharon Iron Companies in the 1850s.

[18] Traffic along the road was heavy for the era, and along the curves, drivers would follow the innermost side instead of keeping to their own lane.

Traffic wishing to cross between the two segments needs to follow US 41/M-28 to a median turn around in a maneuver similar to a Michigan left.

After the project was completed, motorists gained a second option to cross between the two segments of CR 492 following Brookton Road to the Commerce Drive extension and around the Westwood Mall to Wright Street.