diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/Routing.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/Routing.scala
index 8257002a42..424321e2c0 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/Routing.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/Routing.scala
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ abstract private[akka] class AbstractRoutedActorRef(val system: ActorSystem, val
  * A RoutedActorRef is an ActorRef that has a set of connected ActorRef and it uses a Router to send a message to
  * on (or more) of these actors.
  */
-class RoutedActorRef(system: ActorSystem, val routedProps: RoutedProps, val supervisor: ActorRef, override val name: String) extends AbstractRoutedActorRef(system, routedProps) {
+private[akka] class RoutedActorRef(system: ActorSystem, val routedProps: RoutedProps, val supervisor: ActorRef, override val name: String) extends AbstractRoutedActorRef(system, routedProps) {
 
   val path = supervisor.path / name