The area serviced by the network includes the localities of Clontarf, Kippa-Ring, Margate, Newport, Redcliffe, Rothwell, Scarborough and Woody Point.

[5][6] It carries traffic from Brighton, via Clontarf, Woody Point and Margate, to Redcliffe, a distance of 9.8 kilometres (6.1 mi).

It runs north-east across Bramble Bay, over the Houghton Highway (northbound) and the Ted Smout Memorial Bridge (southbound), to Clontarf.

[7] A project to provide safety works at five intersections in Redcliffe, three of which are on Oxley Avenue, was underway at March 2022.

Apart from the Bruce Highway, which it crosses as it leaves Burpengary and enters Deception Bay, there are no major intersections on this road.

[12] A preferred planning layout for the upgrade of a section of Deception Bay Road to four lanes has been released for community consultation.

It is a state-controlled road (number 120), part regional and part district, rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS) It runs from Petrie, via Kallangur, North Lakes, Mango Hill, Rothwell and Kippa-Ring to Redcliffe, a distance of 17.8 kilometres (11.1 mi).

A project to provide safety works at five intersections in Redcliffe, two of which are on Anzac Avenue, was underway at March 2022.

[8] The first road to the Redcliffe Peninsula was an Aboriginal track used to access a prominent bora ring at what is now Kippa-Ring.