SR 36 and US 460 Business continue east through their interchange with I-95 and I-85 (Richmond–Petersburg Turnpike); the latter Interstate has its northern terminus immediately south of the interchange and has direct ramps with Wythe Street and Washington Street.

[1][3] Westbound SR 36 follows Washington Street to Crater Road, onto which the state highway turns north and joins US 301.

[1][3] SR 36 heads east from the joining of Wythe and Washington streets as four-lane divided Washington Street, which crosses over a Norfolk Southern Railway rail line and crosses Harrison Creek into Prince George County.

East of the fort, SR 36 becomes six lanes and meets I-295 at a cloverleaf interchange on the boundary of Prince George County and the city of Hopewell.

[1][3] East of I-295, SR 36 splits into a one-way pair, Oaklawn Boulevard eastbound and Woodlawn Street westbound.

The two directions rejoin at Kenwood Avenue and become Winston Churchill Drive, which reduces to four lanes at an intersection with an unnumbered section of Oaklawn Boulevard that parallels the north side of the state highway.

South of City Point National Cemetery, SR 36 turns east onto Broadway Avenue.

6.70 miles (10.78 km) from Campbells Bridge over the Appomattox River at Petersburg past Matoaca towards Winterpock was added in 1928 as State Route 409.