The highway connects the Braselton area with McCaysville at the Tennessee state line, via Gainesville and Dahlonega.

In the unincorporated community of Belmont, they meet the northern terminus of SR 211 (Tanners Mill Road).

Near City Park, the two highways split and each immediately intersects SR 60 Connector (Oak Tree Drive).

Then, SR 60 crosses over the northeastern portion of Lake Lanier and passes the Chattahoochee Golf Course.

They curve to the northwest, entering town and bordering the western edge of the Achasta Golf Club.

Just before they curve away from the golf course toward the main part of town, they cross over the Chestatee River.

On the southeastern edge of the North Georgia College & State University, they intersect SR 9/SR 52 (Morrison Moore Parkway West), which join the concurrency.

At East Main Street, the southern terminus of US 19 Business/SR 52 Business intersect the concurrency.

A short distance after this intersection, SR 52 departs to the east, while US 19/SR 9/SR 60 cross over Yahoola Creek on the Reverend Joseph Grizzle Bridge.

[1] The only portion of SR 60 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 just south of the interchange with I-985/US 23/SR 365, in Gainesville, to the northern end of the US 19 concurrency, north-northeast of Dahlonega.

[11] By the end of 1926, the portion of SR 9 south-southwest of the city had a "completed semi hard surface".

[14][15] Later that year, SR 86 was established from Blue Ridge northeast to the North Carolina state line west-northwest of Ivy Log.

[17][18] The next month, the western terminus of SR 86 was shifted eastward to begin northwest of Morganton.

[18][19] By mid-1933, the portion of SR 86 from northwest of Morganton to Mineral Bluff had a "sand clay or top soil" surface.

There was also a segment of SR 60, from just southeast of the Lumpkin–Union county line to northwest of Morganton had completed grading, but not surfaced.

An unnumbered road was built from Murrayville to Dahlonega; it had a "sand clay, top soil, or stabilized earth" surface.

[36][37] The next year, the northern half of the Fannin County portion of the segment from Porter Springs to Morganton was hard surfaced.

[38][39] The next year, the unnumbered road south-southeast of Gainesville was extended to SR 124 east of Braselton.

Then, it heads southeast for one more block and meets its eastern terminus, an intersection with SR 11 Business (Riverside Drive).

[2][3] In 1977, SR 60 from Mineral Bluff to the North Carolina state line was shifted westward.