It connects the Kings River Valley to U.S. Route 95 at the town of Orovada.

SR 293 begins at a Nevada Department of Transportation monument in the north-central portion of Humboldt County, just a few miles east of the Kings River.

[2] The road first appears on official state maps 1968, although it was not labeled as being part of Nevada's numbered highway system at that time.

[3] The highway was fully paved by 1971, but still had no route number on the state map.

[6] The road returned to the state highway map, complete with the SR 293 designation, in the 1982 edition.