The highway connects Ashcamp with Marrowbone with mostly rural areas of Pike County.

It curves to the north-northwest, at a point just north of Hellier, and begins paralleling Marrowbone Creek.

It then crosses over Marrowbone Creek and passes Maritha Johnson Cemetery just before curving to the northeast.

In Lookout, it intersects the eastern terminus of KY 611 (Poor Bottom Road).

It curves to the north-northeast and passes what will eventually become the eastern terminus of KY 3174.