The highway intersects Hall Boulevard near the Hall/Nimbus WES station and Scholls Ferry Road, and then proceeds to turn back southeast.

The highway continues southeast for the rest of its route, after which it passes Greenburg Road and nearby Washington Square.

TriMet's Westside Express Service, a commuter rail line, runs parallel to the highway between Tigard and Beaverton.

The southern terminus was scaled back to Wilsonville (current I-5 exit 286) with the completion of I-5 to Portland.

[citation needed] The freeway carrying OR 217 was built in the mid-1960s to early 1970s in several stages, generally beginning at the south end.

The full length of the freeway was repaved for the first time in the mid-1980s, along with the replacement of metal median barriers with concrete dividers.