[1][4][6] Continuing north, the route passed through a non-urbanized area, though still surrounded by houses at regular intervals in addition to more quarries.

Now travelling east, the route passed Sudbury Airport and several more quarries as it gradually meandered to the northeast.

At the community of Skead, located at the southernmost point of Lake Wanapitei, the route ended at Station Road, with the roadway continuing north as a local street.

[1][4][6] Geographically, Highway 541 travelled through the Sudbury Basin, the second largest impact crater on Earth as well as one of the oldest.

[2][3] A significant portion of the route followed the Falconbridge Highway, a road constructed in 1937 to connect Sudbury with the mining deposits located in the area several decades earlier.