The highway runs 3.05 miles (4.91 km) from an entrance to Fort George G. Meade north to MD 176 in Hanover in Anne Arundel County.

The northern end of the highway was relocated in the mid-1990s for the construction of MD 100 and modified again when Arundel Mills was built a few years later.

New Ridge Road continues straight as a county highway toward a collection of industrial and business parks in Hanover.

[7] The highway was extended south from MD 175 to its present terminus at the entrance to Fort Meade in 1967.

[11][12] The newly relocated section of MD 713 was relocated again in 2000 with the construction of Arundel Mills Boulevard to create a four-way intersection between the boulevard, the Ridge Road segment of MD 713, and an entrance to Arundel Mills, which opened the same year.