At the intersection with Holt Street, it curves to the east-southeast and becomes known as White Oak Road.

[3] Almost immediately, SR 223 curves back to the east-southeast at a point just southeast of White Oak Campground.

Farther to the east, Wrightsboro Road is an important urban corridor in the Augusta metropolitan area.

The highway crosses over Kiokee Creek and has a slight northward jog before continuing to the southeast.

A few hundred feet later, the highway enters Grovetown proper and has an intersection with the eastern terminus of Harlem–Grovetown Road.

At an intersection with the western terminus of Selkirk Way, SR 223 curves back to the southeast.

Just past an intersection with the southern terminus of Pepper Hill Drive, the highway leaves the city limits of Grovetown and enters Richmond County and the city limits of Augusta.

Immediately, SR 223 meets its eastern terminus, an intersection with US 78/US 278/SR 10 (Gordon Highway).

But since after the Gordon Highway widening project has been completed in mid 2022, the gate is closed and blocked ever since.

[3] The only segment of SR 223 that is included as part of the National Highway System, a system of routes determined to be the most important for the nation's economy, mobility and defense, is from just west of the SR 388 intersection in Grovetown to its eastern terminus in Augusta.

At the city limits, the highway was known as Hickory Hill Drive and passed by Hickory Hill, a historic house museum, which is a National Historic Landmark, it was a home of Georgia Populist Party co-founder Thomas E.