[2] SR 249 passes through the interchange as a four-lane divided highway but reduces to a two-lane undivided road as it curves east.

The state highway passes through the hamlet of Quinton and meets the northern end of SR 106 (Emmaus Church Road) at a roundabout in Talleysville.

The western 11 miles (18 km) roughly follow the old Richmond-Williamsburg Stage Road, and it currently is named New Kent Highway.

)[3] The Old Stage Road was one of two routes heavily used by both Confederate and Union troops in 1862 during the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.

Nearby, SR 33 between Eltham and Quinton in New Kent County had an extraordinarily high accident rate due to heavy weekend traffic to waterfront points in eastern Virginia.