diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/templates/rails/welcome/index.html.erb b/railties/lib/rails/templates/rails/welcome/index.html.erb
index 6a1754d81e..9a62d206dc 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/templates/rails/welcome/index.html.erb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/templates/rails/welcome/index.html.erb
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@
             </li>
 
             <li>
+              <h2>Set up a root route to replace this page</h2>
+              <p>You're seeing this page because you're running in development mode and you haven't set a root route yet.</p>
               <p>Routes are set up in <span class="filename">config/routes.rb</span>.</p>
             </li>