Known as Wilson Point Road, the state highway runs 1.14 miles (1.83 km) from Dogwood Drive north to MD 150 within Middle River in southeastern Baltimore County.

Wilson Point Road continues south as a two-lane undivided county highway through a residential neighborhood toward the namesake promontory at the confluence of Stansbury Creek on the east and Middle River on the west.

MD 587 heads north as a two-lane divided highway between Martin State Airport on the east and apartment complexes on the west.

A sidewalk was added on the west side of the road running south from MD 150 (Eastern Boulevard) to the apartment complex attaching to an existing sidewalk running the rest of the way down Wilson Point Road.

The original divider was concrete but the widened one has been changed to green space with grass and in some sections small bushes and runs to the end of MD 587.