State Route 712 in Brunswick County is an old alignment of the present US 1 corridor, bypassed in 1925.

From there it heads gradually west and north, mostly along an old alignment of State Route 1 (now US 1), through Coatesville, Chilesburg, and Partlow.

Its continuation in Tennessee is an unnumbered county road in the direction of Alanthus Hill and State Route 63.

Its continuation in Tennessee is an unnumbered county road in the direction of State Route 63 at Mulberry Gap.

Except for a realignment at St. Clair Bottom, SR 762 was primary State Route 79 until 1953.

(The part west of St. Clair Bottom had been a primary state highway since 1924.)

The state secondary route intersects the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Trail and SR 625 (Church Road) within Sterling, where the boulevard has parallel service roads for much of its course.