The route is a two-lane undivided road which passes through rural areas.

Just before the intersection with Paradise Lane, PA 296 curves to the northeast, winding its way through Lake Township.

Now carrying the moniker of the Easton Turnpike, PA 296 leaves the residential hamlet after passing the local school.

PA 296 continues northward out of Waymart and becomes the Belmont Turnpike through Clinton Township.

[2] The section of PA 296 north of PA 196 follows part of the alignment of the Belmont and Easton Turnpike, a turnpike that was chartered on March 15, 1812 to run along the North and South road between the Easton and Wilkes-Barre Turnpike in Northampton County and the community of Belmont in Mount Pleasant Township, Wayne County.

[6] By 1930, the present alignment of the route was an unnumbered road, with the section between Varden and a point north of Waymart paved.