Known as Manassas Drive, the state highway runs 1.89 miles (3.04 km) from the boundary between Manassas Park and Prince William County east to SR 28 in Manassas Park.

SR 213 is the main east–west thoroughfare of the independent city of Manassas Park.

SR 213 begins at the boundary between the city of Manassas Park and Prince William County to the west.

The state highway heads east as a two-lane undivided road that winds its way through several residential neighborhoods in the city.

Manassas Drive continues east as an unnumbered four-lane divided highway that serves the industrial side of town near the Manassas Park Virginia Railway Express station.