The highway is approximately 2.405 miles (3.870 km) long, and loops through Big Spring State Park off of Farm to Market Road 700 (FM 700).

It curves northward providing scenic overlooks of the City of Big Spring.

Retaining walls on the descending switchbacks were built with locally quarried limestone blocks, some of which weighed up to two tons.

[3] On September 22, 1936, the state highway commission initiated an investigation at the request of the state's parks board into the incorporation of certain park roads as part of the state highway system after which the highway commission would assume maintenance of these roads.

Geographic data related to Texas Park Road 8 at OpenStreetMap