It then heads northeast as an improved 2-lane highway, paralleling the Clinch and passing by several golf courses and apartments before coming to an intersection with Melton Lake Drive, just after passing Haw Ridge Park.

It then immediately crosses over a long, tall, and narrow bridge over the Clinch River/Melton Hill Lake, entering Claxton and passing by the Bull Run Steam Plant.

It then transitions to Old Raccoon Valley Road at an intersection where Raccoon Valley Road splits off and goes to the north, just before coming to an intersection and becoming concurrent with US 441/SR 71 (Norris Freeway, which is not an actual freeway but a 2-lane highway).

They head northwest through some mountains and hollows, crossing back into Anderson County.

[1] SR 170 splits off as Hickory Valley Road and goes northeast as 2-lane country road once again, becoming slightly curvy before crossing into Union County and going down a long valley to enter New Loyston to intersect and have a short, wrong way concurrency with SR 61 (Andersonville Highway) just south of Big Ridge State Park.