 After passing over State Street and Puncheon Run, the freeway curves to the east and runs between woods and the parallel Puncheon Run to the south and residential and commercial development to the north.The road crosses over the marshy St. Jones River and continues east-northeast, passing between a residential neighborhood to the south and the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) headquarters to the north before coming to an eastbound exit and westbound entrance at Bay Road.Immediately after the Bay Road interchange, the Puncheon Run Connector merges into northbound DE 1 a short distance to the north of Dover Air Force Base.