The state highway runs 1.33 miles (2.14 km) from U.S. Route 11E (US 11E), US 19, US 421, and SR 381 north to US 11 and US 19 within Bristol.

One block to the north at Sycamore Street, the one-way pair ends and both directions of the state highway follow Piedmont Avenue.

The state highway passes under a rail line then veers northeast onto Oakview Avenue, which passes to the west of the former Virginia Intermont College.

Just north of the college, SR 113 intersects Moore Street and the northern end of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, which carries US 11 Truck and US 19 Truck.

The state highway and the two truck routes continue on Moore Street north to their concurrent termini at US 11 and US 19, which head west as Euclid Avenue and northeast as Lee Highway.