The highway is used as a connector to PTH 8 and the St. Andrews Airport from the minor communities along Main St.

The highway heads due southeast, passing by several businesses and few homes to have an intersection with Aviation Boulevard, which provides access to St. Andrews Airport.

It leaves Parkdale and travels through rural farmland, crossing a railroad track and entering a neighbourhood, where PTH 27 comes to an end at an intersection with PTH 9 (Main Street).

[6] Highway 27 was shortened to 22 kilometres (14 mi) in 1956 when the section between Tremaine and Rapid City was renumbered to its current PTH 24 designation.

[7] The original Highway 27 was decommissioned in its entirety in 1965 and redesignated as PR 270 when the Manitoba Government implemented its secondary road system the following year.