It is the main access road to the dairy farms and tourist-attraction rain forests of Monteverde.

[2] Work started in June 2017, with a projected end date of September 2018, to stabilize and widen some sections of the road.

Work also began to pave the remaining 17-kilometer dirt and gravel section from Guacimal to Santa Elena.

[3] By December 2018, the contractor Grupo Orosi had a 22% advance on the work, with a three-month delay after the original project end date.

The last segment remains unpaved as of October 2019, while awaiting a new contract with a different company to continue the work, projected to start in May 2020.