The highway connects Griffin to Roswell, via Fayetteville, Fairburn, Douglasville, Hiram, Acworth, and Woodstock.

Primarily signed from south to north, SR 92 is a rural highway that travels through three county seats.

Turning northwesterly on Fayetteville Road, SR 92 follows a two-lane roadway through rural Spalding County, running through a combination of woods and farm fields.

The highway rounds the northern end of Heads Creek Reservoir before crossing the Flint River and into Fayette County.

Past the river, the highway turns northward, running next to Lake Horton before entering the town of Woolsey.

Continuing northward, the landscape transitions to residential subdivisions again as the highway enters the outskirts of Fayetteville.

SR 92 follows Jimmie Mayfield Boulevard north before turning west onto Helen Sams Parkway, a divided highway.

SR 92 crosses into the southwestern corner of Fulton County near Fairburn, and it runs through a mixture of industrial parks and commercial zones.

The highway passes over I-85, without an interchange, and crosses rail lines owned by CSX Transportation.

[4][5] On the north bank of the Chattahoochee, SR 166 joins the concurrency, and the merged highway continues northward away from the river.

On the south side of town, the highway arcs westward and crosses I-20 at that freeway's exit 37.

SR 92 passes into downtown and merges with to run westward with US 78/Georgia State Route 5 /SR 8 for several blocks before turn northward again.

There it follows Hiram–Douglasville Highway north into Hiram where it crosses a line of the Norfolk Southern Railway and intersects US 278/SR 6 (Jimmy Lee Smith Parkway).

SR 92 turns southeasterly onto Cobb Parkway to cross one arm of Lake Allatoona.

The highway follows Lake Acworth Drive through town and parallel to I-75 before crossing that freeway and entering Cherokee County, Georgia.

[7][8] By the end of 1931, the southern half of this segment of SR 54 had a "sand clay or top soil" surface.

[15][16] About a year later, a portion northwest of Griffin had a sand clay or top soil surface.

Also, the southern part of the Douglas County portion of this segment had completed grading, but was not surfaced.

However, there is no indication if the highway was concurrent with SR 6 from Hiram to Dallas or if this was a completely separate segment.

[29][30] In 1944, a small portion north-northwest of Fayetteville had a sand clay or top soil surface.

[42][43] The next year, the segment of SR 92 from Dallas to New Hope was shifted to the southeast, onto this unnumbered road, which connected it more directly to the rest of the highway.

[27][28] A portion of SR 176 just west of Lost Mountain had a "sand clay, top soil, or stabilized earth" surface.

[55][56] By the middle of 1955, this entire segment of SR 176 had a sand clay, topsoil, or stabilized earth surface.

[52][53] On April 4, 1977, Southern Airways Flight 242 attempted a landing on the stretch of highway near New Hope after hail and heavy rain shattered its windshields and destroyed its engines.