It is the only highway to provide access to Esker Lakes Provincial Park.

It proceeds north past the Timiskaming–Cochrane District boundary, travelling through and providing the only road access to Esker Lakes Provincial Park.

The route ends at Highway 101, approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of Matheson and 23 kilometres (14 mi) west of the Quebec border.

It appears for the first time on the 1990 Official Road Map as a paved road;[2] however, it does not appear in the 1989 Highway Distance Table published eight months earlier.

[4] The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 672, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario.