The highway crosses Main Street (SR 398) and continues along Cornell Avenue to its end at a five-point intersection with 14th Street, Airport Road (SR 856) and Upper Valley Road near the Lovelock city limits.

The highway heads northeast concurrent with SR 856 as Airport Road, crossing over Upper Valley Road, an irrigation canal, and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks before ending at a half-interchange with Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 95.

[4] With the adoption of the U.S. Highway System in 1926,[citation needed] US 40 was eventually added concurrently with SR 1.

[6] Also around this time, the Nevada Department of Transportation was beginning to renumber its highways, eliminating the State Route 1 designation and redesignating the Lovelock portion on Cornell Avenue and Upper Valley Road as State Route 396.

[7] Airport Road appears on maps as early as 1954, although it was not assigned a state highway number at the time.