The highway connects Plum Branch with rural areas of McCormick and Edgefield counties.

It travels to the east and nearly immediately curves to the east-northeast before leaving the city limits.

Just past the intersection with Upper Mill Road the highway enters Sumter National Forest.

Just to the east of an intersection with North Martintown Road, which is south-southwest of Cleora, the highway leaves the national forest.

Farther to the east, it meets its eastern terminus, an intersection with US 25, at a point northwest of Edgefield.