The road skirts the western edge of the Charles de Gaulle Airport, crosses the RD104 and then through open countryside.
The road now passes through the Forêt du Chantilly before reaching the Cathedral City of Senlis.
The road crosses the river at Péronne and continues north over World War I battlefields passing French, British and German cemeteries.
The road crosses the river Scarpe and heads north over the Vimy Ridge past the war memorial to Canadian troops.
The road then reaches the industrial town of Lens, the landscape is dotted with slag heaps from the coal mines nearby.