diff --git a/.chloggen/fix-annotations-gateway-route.yaml b/.chloggen/fix-annotations-gateway-route.yaml
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..18f87d262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/fix-annotations-gateway-route.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: bug_fix
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. tempostack, tempomonolithic, github action)
+component: tempostack
+
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Fix setting annotations for Gateway route
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [1014]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
diff --git a/internal/manifests/gateway/gateway_test.go b/internal/manifests/gateway/gateway_test.go
index 9bb800866..5439d07a7 100644
--- a/internal/manifests/gateway/gateway_test.go
+++ b/internal/manifests/gateway/gateway_test.go
@@ -158,6 +158,9 @@ func TestBuildGateway_openshift(t *testing.T) {
 					Enabled: true,
 					Ingress: v1alpha1.IngressSpec{
 						Type: v1alpha1.IngressTypeRoute,
+						Annotations: map[string]string{
+							"timeout": "30s",
+						},
 						Route: v1alpha1.RouteSpec{
 							Termination: v1alpha1.TLSRouteTerminationTypePassthrough,
 						},
@@ -246,6 +249,7 @@ func TestBuildGateway_openshift(t *testing.T) {
 	require.True(t, ok)
 	require.Equal(t, "Service", route.Spec.To.Kind)
 	require.Equal(t, "tempo-simplest-gateway", route.Spec.To.Name)
+	require.Equal(t, map[string]string{"timeout": "30s"}, route.ObjectMeta.Annotations)
 
 	obj = getObjectByTypeAndName(objects, "tempo-simplest-gateway-cabundle", reflect.TypeOf(&corev1.ConfigMap{}))
 	require.NotNil(t, obj)
diff --git a/internal/manifests/gateway/openshift.go b/internal/manifests/gateway/openshift.go
index d72cd1151..858564042 100644
--- a/internal/manifests/gateway/openshift.go
+++ b/internal/manifests/gateway/openshift.go
@@ -113,9 +113,10 @@ func route(tempo v1alpha1.TempoStack) (*routev1.Route, error) {
 
 	return &routev1.Route{
 		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
-			Name:      naming.Name(manifestutils.GatewayComponentName, tempo.Name),
-			Namespace: tempo.Namespace,
-			Labels:    labels,
+			Name:        naming.Name(manifestutils.GatewayComponentName, tempo.Name),
+			Namespace:   tempo.Namespace,
+			Labels:      labels,
+			Annotations: tempo.Spec.Template.Gateway.Ingress.Annotations,
 		},
 		Spec: routev1.RouteSpec{
 			Host: tempo.Spec.Template.Gateway.Ingress.Host,