diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5a991a0..f3946c9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -148,11 +148,14 @@ $router->get(['/user/{name}', 'username'], function($name){
 
 // Use the routename and pass in any route parameters to reverse engineer an existing route path
 // If you change your route path above, you won't need to go through your code updating any links/references to that route
-$router->route('username', 'joe');
-// string(9) '/user/joe'
+$router->route('username', ['joe']);
+// string(8) 'user/joe'
 
 $router->route('page', ['intro', 456]);
-// string(15) '/page/intro/456'
+// string(14) 'page/intro/456'
+
+$router->route('product', [1], true);
+// string(11) '/product/1/'
 
 ```
 
diff --git a/src/Phroute/RouteCollector.php b/src/Phroute/RouteCollector.php
index 25aba08..7178e2f 100644
--- a/src/Phroute/RouteCollector.php
+++ b/src/Phroute/RouteCollector.php
@@ -70,9 +70,10 @@ public function hasRoute($name) {
     /**
      * @param $name
      * @param array $args
+     * @param bool $wrapWithSlashes
      * @return string
      */
-    public function route($name, array $args = null)
+    public function route($name, array $args = null, $wrapWithSlashes = false)
     {
         $url = [];
 
@@ -101,7 +102,9 @@ public function route($name, array $args = null)
             }
         }
 
-        return implode('', $url);
+        $wrapChar = $wrapWithSlashes ? '/' : '';
+
+        return $wrapChar . implode('', $url) . $wrapChar;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/test/Dispatcher/DispatcherTest.php b/test/Dispatcher/DispatcherTest.php
index 720c2c1..6c2c6f0 100644
--- a/test/Dispatcher/DispatcherTest.php
+++ b/test/Dispatcher/DispatcherTest.php
@@ -178,6 +178,19 @@ public function testOptionalReverseRoute()
         $this->assertEquals('products/store/1', $r->route('products', array(1)));
     }
 
+    public function testReverseRouteWrappedWithSlashes()
+    {
+        $r = $this->router();
+
+        $r->any( ['products/store', 'products'], [__NAMESPACE__.'\\Test','route']);
+
+        $this->assertEquals('/products/store/', $r->route('products', null, true));
+
+        $r->any( ['products/store/{store:i}', 'products'], [__NAMESPACE__.'\\Test','route']);
+
+        $this->assertEquals('/products/store/1/', $r->route('products', [1], true));
+    }
+
     public function testReverseRouteWithDashes()
     {
         $r = $this->router();