The state highway heads east as a two-lane undivided road and passes between many of the affluent residential subdivisions of Great Falls.

A crowned and graduated stone highway, constructed according to a modified Tresaguet system, the Georgetown Pike surpassed the standards of the enabling legislation of both the U. S. Congress and the Assembly of Virginia.

"1 This substantial method of construction has served the road well, as it has survived flooding, war, neglect, and adaptation for automobile traffic.

The Georgetown Pike is a road built in conformance with the most advanced engineering expertise and construction resources of the early nineteenth century.

Men using hand tools and horse-drawn equipment formed the roadbed, clearing, blasting, plowing, scooping, and filling the rough terrain.

In 1963, Virginia completed the Dolley Madison Boulevard bypass in the McLean area, as an alternative to widening both the existing Chain Bridge Road and Georgetown Pike.