The route heads northeast, and crosses over Blue Creek and travels through Batesville.

Farther to the east, it passes New Blue Creek Cemetery and intersects SR 384 (Duncan Bridge Road).

(Ben T. Huiet Highway) and cross Maudlin Mill, Car, and Chickamauga Creeks before they reach Sautee Nacoochee.

It heads to the east, and re-enters Habersham County, at the same time exiting the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest.

The highway heads north-northeast to meet its northern terminus, an intersection with SR 197 in Batesville.

[2][3] In 1953, a section from Sautee to just inside the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest was paved.