[2] Route 248 joins the concurrency and the three roads make several changes in direction before steadily heading north.

Routes 413, 265, and 248 begin to turn in different directions again and cross through more rural territory.

[2] Routes 265 and 413 pass a dense forest to the north and heads into Crane.

The routes leave Crane after intersecting with a few county and local roads.

[2] The highway was originally commissioned in 2000 to replace a section of Route 13 that was rerouted along the James River Freeway and only ran from Kansas Expressway in Springfield to the James River Freeway.