The forestland gives way to moderate residential development and a signalized intersection with a local road named East Country Club Drive (the first of very few of them).

Beyond that point is an intersection leading to the Horry County Recycling Center, but the rest of the vicinity remains sparsely residential, until it passes Pineland Lake across from the other end of Old Pireway Road, gains the street name "Royal Tern Court," and approaches the Hickory Grove Community, where more mixed residential and commercial surroundings can be seen.

The route curves from southeast to northeast as it approaches the shared intersection with Fremont Road and the eastern terminus of St. Johns Circle, which is also crossed diagonally be a small power line right-of-way.

East of this intersection, the road gains the street name "Pireway Road," which SC 905 keeps through the rest of its journey, then curves north in order to intersect South Carolina Highway 9, which is a four-lane divided highway from Green Sea to North Myrtle Beach.

Beyond this point is sporadic lots of residential development and ranch land, often interrupted by natural vegetation.