The highway is known as Jimmie Dyess Parkway from its southern terminus to an intersection with Park West Drive, one block south of the interchange with Interstate 20 (I-20).

It is named after Lieutenant Colonel Aquilla James "Jimmie" Dyess, a United States Marine Corps officer who was a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life" at the head of his troops during World War II in the Battle of Kwajalein, on Roi-Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands on February 2, 1944.

SR 383 serves as an important access route leading from Fort Eisenhower to the local area.

SR 383 begins at an intersection with US 78/US 278/SR 10 (Gordon Highway) approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Fort Eisenhower's Gate 1, in Augusta, in Richmond County.

Just south of an interchange with Interstate 20 (I-20; Carl Sanders Highway), the highway intersects both the eastern terminus of Park West Drive and the western terminus of Belair Frontage Road, where the local name changes from Jimmie Dyess Parkway to South Belair Road.