Route 24 is the primary freeway access for the two towns in the southeastern corner of the state, Tiverton and Little Compton.

Though on the mainland, they are isolated from the rest of the state by an arm of the Narragansett Bay.

It heads northeast and has a short concurrency with Route 138 over the Sakonnet River Bridge to Tiverton.

[2] All interchanges in Rhode Island, including Route 24, will be renumbered to mileage-based numbers by 2020 under a plan announced by RIDOT in the fall of 2017.

In November 2019, RIDOT announced that Route 24 will be renumbering the exits in spring 2020.