The route serves as a northern bypass around downtown Clarksville, and also provides access to Fort Campbell, a United States Army installation that is the headquarters for the 101st Airborne Division and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne).

Warfield Boulevard is named for a family that owned the land before it was constructed there.

[citation needed] Construction is complete along the 101st Parkway segment of SR 374, which widened that part of the highway to four lanes and created an overpass with exits that allow traffic to freely flow over Wilma Rudolph Boulevard.

A community meeting was held in November 2010, (updated) As of July 6, 2020 the Tennessee Department of Transportation [TDOT] had conductucted the proper FONSI survey and had approved the extension and there is no date yet set for construction to begin.

[citation needed] Milepoints listed in this table is an estimate of the distance between the western terminus and the junction in question.