It will continue from the end of the Military Cutoff Road extension onto the Hampstead Bypass, a four-lane freeway running through a wooded rural area. It will run further northeast for roughly , passing under Sidbury Road and Harrison Creek Road without interchanges, before meeting NC 210 at a diamond interchange northwest of Hampstead. Shortly after, the freeway will come to another interchange with Hoover Road. Northeast of Hampstead, it will turn east toward US 17, ending at an interchange with that road.
