The route is 68 miles (109 km) in length and is fully open and signed in both directions.

It heads north through the Leicestershire countryside to Goadby where it is interrupted by NCN Route 63.

It restarts at Owston and Newbold and then passes through the centre of Melton Mowbray.

[4] It crosses into Lincolnshire at Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir and stops shortly after when it meets NCN 15 on the toepath of the Grantham Canal.

[5] Route 64 reappears at another junction with NCN 15 near Thoroton[6] in Nottinghamshire and travels in a north easterly direction picking up the Newark to Cotham Railway Path, a traffic free route as far as Newark Northgate Station.