Its southern terminus is near the town of Beverly at State Route 60, and its northern terminus is overlooking Lake Erie at U.S. Route 6 in Avon Lake.

A portion of SR 83 is part of the Morgan County Scenic Byway.

At this time, SR 83 was also rerouted along a new western bypass of Coshocton with US 36 and State Route 16.

[12] SR 83 was planned to be relocated in Lorain County, but only two short segments of this relocation were built, at Interstate 90/State Route 2 and at State Route 10, with the rest of the plans abandoned after 1991.

[14] The latter road is one of the two constructed segments of the once-proposed relocation of SR 83.