diff --git a/zio-http-benchmarks/src/main/scala-2.13/zio/http/benchmarks/EndpointBenchmark.scala b/zio-http-benchmarks/src/main/scala-2.13/zio/http/benchmarks/EndpointBenchmark.scala
index 1087b8c1f0..8a3b9cd9ca 100644
--- a/zio-http-benchmarks/src/main/scala-2.13/zio/http/benchmarks/EndpointBenchmark.scala
+++ b/zio-http-benchmarks/src/main/scala-2.13/zio/http/benchmarks/EndpointBenchmark.scala
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ class EndpointBenchmark {
   val collectHttpApp = Routes(
     Method.GET / "users" / int("userId") / "posts" / int("postId") -> handler {
       (userIdInt: Int, postIdInt: Int, req: Request) =>
-        val query = req.url.queryParams.get("query").flatMap(_.headOption).get
+        val query = req.url.queryParams.get("query").get
 
         Response.json(ExampleData(userIdInt, postIdInt, query).toJson)
     },
diff --git a/zio-http/src/main/scala/zio/http/QueryParams.scala b/zio-http/src/main/scala/zio/http/QueryParams.scala
index ae9ae203fd..cd9367c941 100644
--- a/zio-http/src/main/scala/zio/http/QueryParams.scala
+++ b/zio-http/src/main/scala/zio/http/QueryParams.scala
@@ -84,16 +84,28 @@ final case class QueryParams(map: Map[String, Chunk[String]]) {
     QueryParams(map.filter(p.tupled))
 
   /**
-   * Retrieves the query parameter values having the specified name.
+   * Retrieves all query parameter values having the specified name.
    */
-  def get(key: String): Option[Chunk[String]] = map.get(key)
+  def getAll(key: String): Option[Chunk[String]] = map.get(key)
 
   /**
-   * Retrieves the query parameter value having the specified name, or else uses
-   * the default iterable.
+   * Retrieves the first query parameter value having the specified name.
    */
-  def getOrElse(key: String, default: => Iterable[String]): Chunk[String] =
-    map.getOrElse(key, Chunk.fromIterable(default))
+  def get(key: String): Option[String] = getAll(key).flatMap(_.headOption)
+
+  /**
+   * Retrieves all query parameter values having the specified name, or else
+   * uses the default iterable.
+   */
+  def getAllOrElse(key: String, default: => Iterable[String]): Chunk[String] =
+    getAll(key).getOrElse(Chunk.fromIterable(default))
+
+  /**
+   * Retrieves the first query parameter value having the specified name, or
+   * else uses the default value.
+   */
+  def getOrElse(key: String, default: => String): String =
+    get(key).getOrElse(default)
 
   override def hashCode: Int = normalize.map.hashCode
 
diff --git a/zio-http/src/main/scala/zio/http/codec/internal/EncoderDecoder.scala b/zio-http/src/main/scala/zio/http/codec/internal/EncoderDecoder.scala
index 15bfd5eaea..a49bbd4a00 100644
--- a/zio-http/src/main/scala/zio/http/codec/internal/EncoderDecoder.scala
+++ b/zio-http/src/main/scala/zio/http/codec/internal/EncoderDecoder.scala
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ private[codec] object EncoderDecoder {
 
         val queryParamValue =
           queryParams
-            .getOrElse(query.name, Nil)
+            .getAllOrElse(query.name, Nil)
             .collectFirst(query.textCodec)
 
         queryParamValue match {
diff --git a/zio-http/src/test/scala/zio/http/QueryParamsSpec.scala b/zio-http/src/test/scala/zio/http/QueryParamsSpec.scala
index 5c3d6d9e14..277ace21ed 100644
--- a/zio-http/src/test/scala/zio/http/QueryParamsSpec.scala
+++ b/zio-http/src/test/scala/zio/http/QueryParamsSpec.scala
@@ -230,6 +230,18 @@ object QueryParamsSpec extends ZIOHttpSpec {
           }
         },
       ),
+      suite("get - getAll")(
+        test("success") {
+          val name        = "name"
+          val default     = "default"
+          val unknown     = "non-existent"
+          val queryParams = QueryParams(name -> "a", name -> "b")
+          assertTrue(queryParams.get(name).get == "a") &&
+          assertTrue(queryParams.getOrElse(unknown, default) == default) &&
+          assertTrue(queryParams.getAll(name).get.length == 2) &&
+          assertTrue(queryParams.getAllOrElse(unknown, Chunk(default)).length == 1)
+        },
+      ),
       suite("encode - decode")(
         test("success") {
           val genQueryParamsWithoutCornerCases =
diff --git a/zio-http/src/test/scala/zio/http/codec/HttpCodecSpec.scala b/zio-http/src/test/scala/zio/http/codec/HttpCodecSpec.scala
index d5535a6260..058bebb9c1 100644
--- a/zio-http/src/test/scala/zio/http/codec/HttpCodecSpec.scala
+++ b/zio-http/src/test/scala/zio/http/codec/HttpCodecSpec.scala
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ object HttpCodecSpec extends ZIOHttpSpec {
         test("paramBool encoding") {
           val requestTrue  = codecBool.encodeRequest(true)
           val requestFalse = codecBool.encodeRequest(false)
-          assert(requestTrue.url.queryParams.get(isAge).get.head)(Assertion.equalTo("true")) &&
-          assert(requestFalse.url.queryParams.get(isAge).get.head)(Assertion.equalTo("false"))
+          assert(requestTrue.url.queryParams.get(isAge).get)(Assertion.equalTo("true")) &&
+          assert(requestFalse.url.queryParams.get(isAge).get)(Assertion.equalTo("false"))
         },
       ) +
       suite("Codec with examples") {