It runs from the northern terminal of the Weldon Ferry, which connects to Highway 682 across the South Saskatchewan River, to a dead end near the Nisbet Provincial Forest.

Highway 302 goes westward from the South Saskatchewan River, passing near the communities of Birson, Fir Ridge, and Cecil.

It then enters the city of Prince Albert as 15th Street.

Highway 302 provides access to La Colle Falls and Saskatchewan River Forks Recreation Site.

Saskatchewan Highways and Transportation (SHT), now the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure, undertook a landslide risk management system program to monitor risk sites, applying technological innovations to prevent any further erosion of the riverbank and plan responses to future landslide movement detected by monitors.