Its urban portion is 7.4 km (5 mi) long, and serves as one of the major thoroughfares in the Gungahlin district, before becoming a parkway standard roadway south of the Barton Highway.

This high quality section was built as the major part of the Gungahlin Drive Extension project.

It heads in a roughly south-easterly direction, passing by several suburbs, and becoming dual carriageway to the east of Gundaroo Drive.

It then crosses between the Mulanggari and Gungaderra Grasslands and heads in a southerly direction along the western edge of the Mitchell industrial area.

It then switches to a southwesterly heading and crosses over the Barton Highway, the interchange at this location also marks the transition to the start of the Gungahlin Drive Extension, built to parkway standards.