diff --git a/addon/components/bs-link-to.js b/addon/components/bs-link-to.js
index 84bb72d12..c8c544d9e 100644
--- a/addon/components/bs-link-to.js
+++ b/addon/components/bs-link-to.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import Component from '@ember/component';
 import { tagName } from '@ember-decorators/component';
 import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
-import { assert } from '@ember/debug';
+import { assert, deprecate } from '@ember/debug';
 import ComponentChild from '../mixins/component-child';
 import { dependentKeyCompat } from '@ember/object/compat';
 
@@ -70,6 +70,17 @@ class LinkComponent extends Component.extend(ComponentChild) {
       return;
     }
 
+    deprecate(
+      `Positional arguments for ember-bootstrap's link-to components are deprecated. Switch to angle bracket invocation and named arguments.`,
+      false,
+      {
+        id: `ember-bootstrap.link-to.positional-args`,
+        until: '5.0.0',
+        since: '4.7.0',
+        for: 'ember-bootstrap',
+      }
+    );
+
     params = params.slice();
 
     // taken from original Ember.LnkComponent
diff --git a/tests/integration/components/bs-dropdown/menu/link-to-test.js b/tests/integration/components/bs-dropdown/menu/link-to-test.js
index 07d5297e4..b67f7d48f 100644
--- a/tests/integration/components/bs-dropdown/menu/link-to-test.js
+++ b/tests/integration/components/bs-dropdown/menu/link-to-test.js
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import setupNoDeprecations from '../../../../helpers/setup-no-deprecations';
 
 module('Integration | Component | bs-dropdown/menu/link-to', function (hooks) {
   setupRenderingTest(hooks);
+  setupNoDeprecations(hooks);
+
   hooks.beforeEach(function () {
     this.owner.setupRouter();
   });
@@ -39,7 +41,10 @@ module('Integration | Component | bs-dropdown/menu/link-to', function (hooks) {
     assert.dom('a.dropdown-item').exists({ count: 1 }, 'renders as plain element with dropdown item class');
   });
 
-  module('positional params', function () {
+  module('positional params', function (hooks) {
+    hooks.afterEach(function (assert) {
+      assert.deprecationsInclude(`Positional arguments for ember-bootstrap's link-to components are deprecated.`);
+    });
     test('simple route link', async function (assert) {
       await render(hbs`
         <BsDropdown as |dd|>
@@ -83,9 +88,7 @@ module('Integration | Component | bs-dropdown/menu/link-to', function (hooks) {
     });
   });
 
-  module('<LinkTo> properties', function (hooks) {
-    setupNoDeprecations(hooks);
-
+  module('<LinkTo> properties', function () {
     test('simple route link', async function (assert) {
       await render(hbs`
         <BsDropdown as |dd|>
diff --git a/tests/integration/components/bs-nav/link-to-test.js b/tests/integration/components/bs-nav/link-to-test.js
index 37cf93a4e..c4b4e68a3 100644
--- a/tests/integration/components/bs-nav/link-to-test.js
+++ b/tests/integration/components/bs-nav/link-to-test.js
@@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ import { testNotBS3 } from '../../../helpers/bootstrap';
 
 module('Integration | Component | bs-nav/link-to', function (hooks) {
   setupRenderingTest(hooks);
+  setupNoDeprecations(hooks);
   hooks.beforeEach(function () {
     this.owner.setupRouter();
   });
 
-  module('positional params', function () {
+  module('positional params', function (hooks) {
+    hooks.afterEach(function (assert) {
+      assert.deprecationsInclude(`Positional arguments for ember-bootstrap's link-to components are deprecated.`);
+    });
     test('simple route link', async function (assert) {
       await render(hbs`
         <BsNav as |nav|>
@@ -62,9 +66,7 @@ module('Integration | Component | bs-nav/link-to', function (hooks) {
     });
   });
 
-  module('<LinkTo> properties', function (hooks) {
-    setupNoDeprecations(hooks);
-
+  module('<LinkTo> properties', function () {
     test('simple route link', async function (assert) {
       await render(hbs`
         <BsNav as |nav|>