Just before the concurrency ends, the two highways cross over the Chattahoochee River on the Pleasant Theodore McCutchen Sr. Bridge.

On the eastern side of the river, they diverge, with SR 34 continuing to the northeast and has an interchange with US 27/SR 1.

The highway travels through a portion of Bush Head Shoals State Park.

Then, it passes Turners Lake and Heard Wesley Cemetery, before entering Coweta County.

[1] The only portion of SR 34 that is 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 the central part of Newnan to its eastern terminus.

[2] SR 34 was established between October 1929 and June 1930, from the Alabama state line west-southwest of Franklin, east-northeast to Newnan.

is a 6.0-mile-long (9.7 km) bypass route of SR 34 that exists entirely within the central part of Coweta County.

Most of the bypass functions as a truck route for US 27 Alt./US 29/SR 14/SR 16/SR 34 It begins at an intersection with the SR 34 mainline (Franklin Road) west of Newnan.

It heads north, has an interchange with Welcome Road, and curves to the east-northeast and intersects US 27 Alt./SR 16 (Temple Avenue) northwest of the city.

Then, it continues to an intersection with the southern terminus of SR 70 (Roscoe Road), on the northern edge of the city.

[16] In 1984, a northern bypass of Newnan was established from US 29/SR 14 just north of the city to SR 34 just northeast of it.