The highway travels northwest through the community of Rumford before turning west and passing through Provo.

Here, SD 471 veers north and enters the city of Edgemont as 3rd Street before turning into 2nd Avenue.

The designation continues west onto A Street, passing through Edgemont[2] before briefly turning north on 6th Avenue to terminate at US 18.

The legal description of SD 471 has been codified by the South Dakota Legislature: 31-4-244.

The state trunk highway system includes the following in Fall River County: From a point on State Highway 71 north of Ardmore near the southeast corner of section eight, township eleven south, range four east, thence northwest via Edgemont to a point on U.S. Highway 18 in Edgemont in the southwest quarter of section thirty-six, township eight south, range two east.