GA 141, better known by its myriad of local names, is a highway symbolic of the layers of suburban sprawl extending from Atlanta to south of Cumming. Extending from famed Peachtree Street in the Buckhead Triangle, GA 141 is known by the various names of Peachtree Road, Peachtree Parkway, Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and Medlock Bridge Road. In all, the highway extends through four counties: Fulton, Dekalb, Gwinnett and Forsyth.

Describing the course of the highway, GA 141 begins as a highly urban roadway before it extends through older suburbs in Brookhaven, Chamblee and Doraville. After that, the road changes to full freeway in Norcross before going back to a four-lane arterial prior to entering North Fulton County. At the Forsyth County line, it finally squeezes into two lanes on its final course in Forsyth County to GA 9 just beyond GA 400. In essense, the highway boomerangs back to where it started, just at a point further north.

GA 141 also has two banner routes, both known as GA 141 Connector. One of those routes is actually only a partially signed route designed to provide access to northbound GA 141 from GA 140 (Jimmy Carter Boulevard) in Norcross. Since no direct connection exists and traffic must use parts of the county portions of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and Holcomb Bridge Road, GA 141 Connector was designated along the portions that allowed a return to GA 141 north.

The southern GA 141 Connector is slightly better signed Lenox Road in the Buckhead community in Atlanta. Connecting Peachtree Road (GA 141) to Piedmont Road (GA 237), the highway exists to provide access to Toll GA 400 since no direct access to GA 400 was possible due to the amount of existing structures in the area including Lenox Square Mall and a highrise that GA 400 tunnels under before tunneling beneath GA 141.

How this highway came to be as it was is actually very complicated to describe. Only part of present-day GA 141 is on its original course, and the need to accomodate the trememdous sprawl shaped this road over time from a rural highway to a major north-south corridor between Atlanta and its ever expanding north side.