diff --git a/oapi_validate.go b/oapi_validate.go
index 5bbce40..30ccf79 100644
--- a/oapi_validate.go
+++ b/oapi_validate.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 package nethttpmiddleware
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
@@ -19,14 +20,27 @@ import (
 // ErrorHandler is called when there is an error in validation
 type ErrorHandler func(w http.ResponseWriter, message string, statusCode int)
 
+// ErrorHandlerWithOpts is called when there is an error in validation, if found in Options.
+// Passes error-handling specific opts over and above the standard error handler.
+type ErrorHandlerWithOpts func(w http.ResponseWriter, message string, statusCode int, opts ErrorHandlerOpts)
+
+// ErrorHandlerOpts is used with ErrorHandlerWithOpts()
+type ErrorHandlerOpts struct {
+	*http.Request
+	*routers.Route
+	context.Context
+	Error error
+}
+
 // MultiErrorHandler is called when oapi returns a MultiError type
 type MultiErrorHandler func(openapi3.MultiError) (int, error)
 
 // Options to customize request validation, openapi3filter specified options will be passed through.
 type Options struct {
-	Options           openapi3filter.Options
-	ErrorHandler      ErrorHandler
-	MultiErrorHandler MultiErrorHandler
+	Options              openapi3filter.Options
+	ErrorHandler         ErrorHandler
+	ErrorHandlerWithOpts ErrorHandlerWithOpts
+	MultiErrorHandler    MultiErrorHandler
 	// SilenceServersWarning allows silencing a warning for https://github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen/issues/882 that reports when an OpenAPI spec has `spec.Servers != nil`
 	SilenceServersWarning bool
 }
@@ -51,12 +65,23 @@ func OapiRequestValidatorWithOptions(swagger *openapi3.T, options *Options) func
 		return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 
 			// validate request
-			if statusCode, err := validateRequest(r, router, options); err != nil {
-				if options != nil && options.ErrorHandler != nil {
-					options.ErrorHandler(w, err.Error(), statusCode)
-				} else {
-					http.Error(w, err.Error(), statusCode)
+			if statusCode, route, err := validateRequest(r, router, options); err != nil {
+				if options != nil {
+					if options.ErrorHandlerWithOpts != nil {
+						options.ErrorHandlerWithOpts(w, err.Error(), statusCode, ErrorHandlerOpts{
+							Context: r.Context(),
+							Request: r,
+							Route:   route,
+							Error:   err,
+						})
+						return
+					}
+					if options.ErrorHandler != nil {
+						options.ErrorHandler(w, err.Error(), statusCode)
+						return
+					}
 				}
+				http.Error(w, err.Error(), statusCode)
 				return
 			}
 
@@ -69,12 +94,12 @@ func OapiRequestValidatorWithOptions(swagger *openapi3.T, options *Options) func
 
 // validateRequest is called from the middleware above and actually does the work
 // of validating a request.
-func validateRequest(r *http.Request, router routers.Router, options *Options) (int, error) {
+func validateRequest(r *http.Request, router routers.Router, options *Options) (int, *routers.Route, error) {
 
 	// Find route
 	route, pathParams, err := router.FindRoute(r)
 	if err != nil {
-		return http.StatusNotFound, err // We failed to find a matching route for the request.
+		return http.StatusNotFound, nil, err // We failed to find a matching route for the request.
 	}
 
 	// Validate request
@@ -92,7 +117,8 @@ func validateRequest(r *http.Request, router routers.Router, options *Options) (
 		me := openapi3.MultiError{}
 		if errors.As(err, &me) {
 			errFunc := getMultiErrorHandlerFromOptions(options)
-			return errFunc(me)
+			status, err2 := errFunc(me)
+			return status, route, err2
 		}
 
 		switch e := err.(type) {
@@ -101,17 +127,17 @@ func validateRequest(r *http.Request, router routers.Router, options *Options) (
 			// Split up the verbose error by lines and return the first one
 			// openapi errors seem to be multi-line with a decent message on the first
 			errorLines := strings.Split(e.Error(), "\n")
-			return http.StatusBadRequest, fmt.Errorf(errorLines[0])
+			return http.StatusBadRequest, route, fmt.Errorf(errorLines[0])
 		case *openapi3filter.SecurityRequirementsError:
-			return http.StatusUnauthorized, err
+			return http.StatusUnauthorized, route, err
 		default:
 			// This should never happen today, but if our upstream code changes,
 			// we don't want to crash the server, so handle the unexpected error.
-			return http.StatusInternalServerError, fmt.Errorf("error validating route: %s", err.Error())
+			return http.StatusInternalServerError, route, fmt.Errorf("error validating route: %s", err.Error())
 		}
 	}
 
-	return http.StatusOK, nil
+	return http.StatusOK, route, nil
 }
 
 // attempt to get the MultiErrorHandler from the options. If it is not set,