Except when passing through the towns of Fort Davis (population 2,108) and Alpine (population 6,200), it is possible to follow the road to its terminus, in the Big Bend National Park, and not see another driver for hours.
The Appalachian National Scenic Trail winds southward for some 100 miles (160 km) around the parkway from the road's northern terminus until just north of Roanoke, where the trail turns westward.
After intersecting Mudd Run Road, future western terminus of the Yelm Loop, the roadway enters Yelm city limits.
Paralleling Eighteenmile Creek out of Newfane, the route intersects with CR 104 (Ide Road)'s eastern terminus.
The road's southern terminus is at a junction with Interstate 95 near Chester, a city southwest of Philadelphia, near Philadelphia International Airport.
Rewley Road, the Oxford terminus of Harry Verney's Buckinghamshire Railway and of the Oxford to Cambridge Line, closed to passengers on 1 October 1951 with trains diverted to the former GWR Oxford General, the current Oxford station.
Travel 45 minutes from the Tour Perret, and at the end of a grim road, a grim terminus by an unkempt railway line deposits you at a big white cube, like an iceberg from outer space, franked with the company logo – Whirlpool – and guarded by a steel turnstile of the pre-Hillsborough type.
The road's southern terminus at Woodbury Commons is the most frequent topic of discussion, especially since Black Friday in 2001, when heavy traffic from holiday shoppers along adjacent sections of not only 32 but routes 6 and 17 and the Thruway came to a complete standstill.
