diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3063871..6e03de4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 Only accretive/fixative changes will be made from now on.
 
+* 1.3.next in progress
+  * Address [#295](https://github.com/seancorfield/next-jdbc/issues/295) by providing a way to tell `next.jdbc` that certain options should be passed "as-is" in the `Properties` object when creating a `Connection`.
+
 * 1.3.994 -- 2025-01-28
   * Fix [#293](https://github.com/seancorfield/next-jdbc/issues/293) by no longer `locking` on the `Connection` retrieved from a `DataSource`.
   * Fix documentation examples of `execute-batch!` via PR [#292](https://github.com/seancorfield/next-jdbc/pull/292) from [@devurandom](https://github.com/devurandom).
diff --git a/doc/all-the-options.md b/doc/all-the-options.md
index 29400fc..994828f 100644
--- a/doc/all-the-options.md
+++ b/doc/all-the-options.md
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ Any path that calls `get-connection` will accept the following options:
 
 If you need additional options set on a connection, you can either use Java interop to set them directly, or provide them as part of the "db spec" hash map passed to `get-datasource` (although then they will apply to _all_ connections obtained from that datasource).
 
+Additional options passed are set as `java.util.Properties` and, by default, are coerced to strings.
+If you are working with a driver that requires a non-string value for a property (such as the Snowflake driver), you can provide a `:next.jdbc/as-is-properties` option containing a sequence of options that should be added as-is, rather than coerced to strings.
+
 > Note: If `plan`, `execute!`, or `execute-one!` are passed a `DataSource`, a "db spec" hash map, or a JDBC URL string, they will call `get-connection`, so they will accept the above options in those cases.
 
 ## Generating SQL
diff --git a/src/next/jdbc/connection.clj b/src/next/jdbc/connection.clj
index a7cf0b5..467b50e 100644
--- a/src/next/jdbc/connection.clj
+++ b/src/next/jdbc/connection.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-;; copyright (c) 2018-2024 Sean Corfield, all rights reserved
+;; copyright (c) 2018-2025 Sean Corfield, all rights reserved
 
 (ns next.jdbc.connection
   "Standard implementations of `get-datasource` and `get-connection`.
@@ -374,9 +374,12 @@
 (defn- as-properties
   "Convert any seq of pairs to a `java.util.Properties` instance."
   ^Properties [m]
-  (let [p (Properties.)]
-    (doseq [[k v] m]
-      (.setProperty p (name k) (str v)))
+  (let [p (Properties.)
+        as-is (set (:next.jdbc/as-is-properties m))]
+    (doseq [[k v] (dissoc m :next.jdbc/as-is-properties)]
+      (if (contains? as-is k)
+        (.put p (name k) v)
+        (.setProperty p (name k) (str v))))
     p))
 
 (defn uri->db-spec
diff --git a/test/next/jdbc/connection_string_test.clj b/test/next/jdbc/connection_string_test.clj
index 66ed1d8..aa3767b 100644
--- a/test/next/jdbc/connection_string_test.clj
+++ b/test/next/jdbc/connection_string_test.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-;; copyright (c) 2019-2024 Sean Corfield, all rights reserved
+;; copyright (c) 2019-2025 Sean Corfield, all rights reserved
 
 (ns next.jdbc.connection-string-test
   "Tests for the main hash map spec to JDBC URL logic and the get-datasource
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
             [next.jdbc.connection :as c]
             [next.jdbc.protocols :as p]
             [next.jdbc.specs :as specs]
-            [next.jdbc.test-fixtures :refer [with-test-db db]]))
+            [next.jdbc.test-fixtures :refer [db with-test-db]])
+  (:import [java.util Properties]))
 
 (set! *warn-on-reflection* true)
 
@@ -39,3 +40,16 @@
       (when (and user password)
         (with-open [con (p/get-connection ds {})]
           (is (instance? java.sql.Connection con)))))))
+
+(deftest property-tests
+  (is (string? (.getProperty ^Properties (#'c/as-properties {:foo [42]}) "foo")))
+  (is (string? (.get ^Properties (#'c/as-properties {:foo [42]}) "foo")))
+  (is (vector? (.get ^Properties (#'c/as-properties
+                                  {:foo [42]
+                                   :next.jdbc/as-is-properties [:foo]})
+                     "foo")))
+  ;; because .getProperty drops non-string values!
+  (is (nil? (.getProperty ^Properties (#'c/as-properties
+                                       {:foo [42]
+                                        :next.jdbc/as-is-properties [:foo]})
+                          "foo"))))