diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 9d3e0a10a..a771ce37a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 * Add Content-Disposition to NamedFile #204
 
+* Allow to access Error's backtrace object
+
 
 ## 0.5.6 (2018-04-24)
 
diff --git a/src/error.rs b/src/error.rs
index 3004adef3..37dc3d89f 100644
--- a/src/error.rs
+++ b/src/error.rs
@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ impl Error {
     pub fn cause(&self) -> &ResponseError {
         self.cause.as_ref()
     }
+
+    /// Returns a reference to the Backtrace carried by this error, if it
+    /// carries one.
+    pub fn backtrace(&self) -> Option<&Backtrace> {
+        if let Some(bt) = self.cause.backtrace() {
+            Some(bt)
+        } else {
+            self.backtrace.as_ref()
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// Error that can be converted to `HttpResponse`
@@ -793,6 +803,13 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(format!("{}", e.cause().unwrap()), desc);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_backtrace() {
+        let orig = ErrorBadRequest("err");
+        let e: Error = orig.into();
+        assert!(e.backtrace().is_some());
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_error_cause() {
         let orig = io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, "other");