diff --git a/core/src/main/java/io/cucumber/core/resource/PathScanner.java b/core/src/main/java/io/cucumber/core/resource/PathScanner.java
index 0d67e1345e..0fa10c5f6b 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/io/cucumber/core/resource/PathScanner.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/io/cucumber/core/resource/PathScanner.java
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.nio.file.FileVisitOption;
 import java.nio.file.FileVisitResult;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.SimpleFileVisitor;
 import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
+import java.util.EnumSet;
 import java.util.function.Consumer;
 import java.util.function.Function;
 import java.util.function.Predicate;
@@ -43,7 +45,8 @@ void findResourcesForPath(Path path, Predicate<Path> filter, Function<Path, Cons
         }
 
         try {
-            walkFileTree(path, new ResourceFileVisitor(filter, consumer.apply(path)));
+            walkFileTree(path, EnumSet.of(FileVisitOption.FOLLOW_LINKS), Integer.MAX_VALUE,
+                    new ResourceFileVisitor(filter, consumer.apply(path)));
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw new RuntimeException(e);
         }
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/io/cucumber/core/resource/ResourceScannerTest.java b/core/src/test/java/io/cucumber/core/resource/ResourceScannerTest.java
index bdb375ee64..35a5bd0fff 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/io/cucumber/core/resource/ResourceScannerTest.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/io/cucumber/core/resource/ResourceScannerTest.java
@@ -102,6 +102,13 @@ void scanForResourcesPath() {
         assertThat(resources, contains(file.toURI()));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void scanForResourcesPathSymlink() {
+        File file = new File("src/test/resource-symlink/test/resource.txt");
+        List<URI> resources = resourceScanner.scanForResourcesPath(file.toPath());
+        assertThat(resources, contains(file.toURI()));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void scanForResourcesDirectory() {
         File file = new File("src/test/resources/io/cucumber/core/resource");
@@ -112,6 +119,16 @@ void scanForResourcesDirectory() {
             new File("src/test/resources/io/cucumber/core/resource/test/spaces in name resource.txt").toURI()));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void scanForResourcesDirectorySymlink() {
+        File file = new File("src/test/resource-symlink");
+        List<URI> resources = resourceScanner.scanForResourcesPath(file.toPath());
+        assertThat(resources, containsInAnyOrder(
+            new File("src/test/resource-symlink/test/resource.txt").toURI(),
+            new File("src/test/resource-symlink/test/other-resource.txt").toURI(),
+            new File("src/test/resource-symlink/test/spaces in name resource.txt").toURI()));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void scanForResourcesFileUri() {
         File file = new File("src/test/resources/io/cucumber/core/resource/test/resource.txt");
diff --git a/core/src/test/resource-symlink b/core/src/test/resource-symlink
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..0d9643fced
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/test/resource-symlink
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+resources/io/cucumber/core/resource
\ No newline at end of file