Winding northeast, the route soon reaches a junction with Beaver Meadow Road before bending northward into the woods near Maple Ridge Lane.

Now maintained by the town of Strafford, the route bends northeast out of the woods and past numerous residences on the bottom of a ridge.

[3] Now running eastward, VT 132 bends northeast into the hamlet of South Strafford, intersecting the Justin Morrill Memorial Highway.

Through South Strafford, the route begins paralleling the west branch of the Ompompanoosuc River and reaching a junction with Mine Road, where it turns north.

[3] At Miller Pond Road, the route continues winding along the riverside bending southeast into the hamlet of Rices Mills.