The highway's first intersection is with Cromwell Park Drive, which is unsigned MD 162A and has a right-in/right-out interchange with southbound I-97.

The highway passes to the west of an industrial park before forming the western edge of a residential subdivision.

The highway passes between a pair of long-term parking lots and crosses Cabin Branch before reaching its northern terminus at MD 170, which heads north through Linthicum as Camp Meade Road toward I-695.

[1][2] MD 162 is a part of the National Highway System as an intermodal connector for its entire length.

[4][5][6][7] The MD 167 portion of Hammonds Ferry Road was transferred back to county maintenance in 1961 or 1962.

[11][12] The highway was relocated to its present alignment south of what is now Cromwell Park Drive by 1978.