diff --git a/packages/ember-glimmer/tests/integration/application/engine-test.js b/packages/ember-glimmer/tests/integration/application/engine-test.js
index 2a5a8b25d86..799ac1ab1c3 100644
--- a/packages/ember-glimmer/tests/integration/application/engine-test.js
+++ b/packages/ember-glimmer/tests/integration/application/engine-test.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { Controller, RSVP } from 'ember-runtime';
 import { Component } from 'ember-glimmer';
 import { Engine } from 'ember-application';
 import { Route } from 'ember-routing';
+import { jQuery } from 'ember-views';
 
 moduleFor('Application test: engine rendering', class extends ApplicationTest {
   setupAppAndRoutableEngine(hooks = []) {
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ moduleFor('Application test: engine rendering', class extends ApplicationTest {
         this.route('comments');
         this.route('likes');
       });
+      this.route('category', {path: 'category/:id'});
     });
     this.registerRoute('application', Route.extend({
       model() {
@@ -34,6 +36,9 @@ moduleFor('Application test: engine rendering', class extends ApplicationTest {
           queryParams: ['lang'],
           lang: ''
         }));
+        this.register('controller:category', Controller.extend({
+          queryParams: ['type'],
+        }));
         this.register('template:application', compile('Engine{{lang}}{{outlet}}'));
         this.register('route:application', Route.extend({
           model() {
@@ -572,4 +577,18 @@ moduleFor('Application test: engine rendering', class extends ApplicationTest {
       });
     });
   }
+
+  ['@test query params don\'t have stickiness by default between model'](assert) {
+    assert.expect(1);
+
+    this.setupAppAndRoutableEngine();
+    this.additionalEngineRegistrations(function() {
+      this.register('template:category', compile('{{#link-to "blog.category" 1337}}Category 1337{{/link-to}}'))
+    });
+
+    return this.visit('/blog/category/1?type=news').then(() => {
+      let href = this.element.querySelector('a').href;
+      assert.equal(href.match(/type=news/), null);
+    });
+  }
 });
diff --git a/packages/ember-routing/lib/system/route.js b/packages/ember-routing/lib/system/route.js
index 3dae41323ba..ba1f66d0974 100644
--- a/packages/ember-routing/lib/system/route.js
+++ b/packages/ember-routing/lib/system/route.js
@@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ let Route = EmberObject.extend(ActionHandler, Evented, {
         let aQp = queryParams.map[prop];
 
         aQp.values = params;
-        let cacheKey = calculateCacheKey(aQp.controllerName, aQp.parts, aQp.values);
+        let cacheKey = calculateCacheKey(aQp.route.fullRouteName, aQp.parts, aQp.values);
 
         if (cache) {
           let value = cache.lookup(cacheKey, prop, aQp.undecoratedDefaultValue);
@@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@ let Route = EmberObject.extend(ActionHandler, Evented, {
   _qpChanged(prop, value, qp) {
     if (!qp) { return; }
 
-    let cacheKey = calculateCacheKey(qp.controllerName, qp.parts, qp.values);
+    let cacheKey = calculateCacheKey(qp.route.fullRouteName, qp.parts, qp.values);
 
     // Update model-dep cache
     let cache = this._bucketCache;
diff --git a/packages/ember-routing/lib/system/router.js b/packages/ember-routing/lib/system/router.js
index 00794ace15e..859e44696a1 100644
--- a/packages/ember-routing/lib/system/router.js
+++ b/packages/ember-routing/lib/system/router.js
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ const EmberRouter = EmberObject.extend(Evented, {
             delete queryParams[presentProp];
           }
         } else {
-          let cacheKey = calculateCacheKey(qp.controllerName, qp.parts, state.params);
+          let cacheKey = calculateCacheKey(qp.route.fullRouteName, qp.parts, state.params);
           queryParams[qp.scopedPropertyName] = appCache.lookup(cacheKey, qp.prop, qp.defaultValue);
         }
       }