diff --git a/jsonschema/tests/test_validators.py b/jsonschema/tests/test_validators.py
index 02a584b4c..5e4004eb0 100644
--- a/jsonschema/tests/test_validators.py
+++ b/jsonschema/tests/test_validators.py
@@ -1622,6 +1622,36 @@ def handler(url):
         with resolver.resolving(ref):
             pass
 
+    def test_custom_cache_decorators(self):
+        response = [object(), object()]
+
+        def handler(url):
+            return response.pop()
+
+        def mock_cache_dec(f):
+            return f
+
+        # We need cache_remote=False here, because there are two layers of
+        # caches: the resolver.store, which is disabled by cache_remote, and
+        # the default lru_cache on resolver.resolve_from_url, which we disable
+        # with mock_cache_dec.
+
+        ref = "foo://bar"
+        resolver = validators.RefResolver(
+            "", {}, remote_cache_dec=mock_cache_dec,
+            urljoin_cache_dec=mock_cache_dec,
+            cache_remote=False,
+            handlers={"foo": handler},
+        )
+        with resolver.resolving(ref):
+            pass
+        with resolver.resolving(ref):
+            pass
+
+        # Since there should be no caching, the handler must have been called
+        # twice, so the "response" list should be empty now.
+        self.assertEqual(len(response), 0)
+
     def test_if_you_give_it_junk_you_get_a_resolution_error(self):
         error = ValueError("Oh no! What's this?")
 
diff --git a/jsonschema/validators.py b/jsonschema/validators.py
index 650b5d17b..051bbcac6 100644
--- a/jsonschema/validators.py
+++ b/jsonschema/validators.py
@@ -588,14 +588,14 @@ class RefResolver(object):
             A mapping from URI schemes to functions that should be used
             to retrieve them
 
-        urljoin_cache (functools.lru_cache):
+        urljoin_cache_dec (functools.lru_cache):
 
-            A cache that will be used for caching the results of joining
-            the resolution scope to subscopes.
+            A cache decorator that will be used for caching the results of
+            joining the resolution scope to subscopes.
 
-        remote_cache (functools.lru_cache):
+        remote_cache_dec (functools.lru_cache):
 
-            A cache that will be used for caching the results of
+            A cache decorator that will be used for caching the results of
             resolved remote URLs.
 
     Attributes:
@@ -614,11 +614,18 @@ def __init__(
         handlers=(),
         urljoin_cache=None,
         remote_cache=None,
+        urljoin_cache_dec=None,
+        remote_cache_dec=None,
     ):
+        if urljoin_cache_dec is None:
+            urljoin_cache_dec = lru_cache(1024)
+        if remote_cache_dec is None:
+            remote_cache_dec = lru_cache(1024)
+
         if urljoin_cache is None:
-            urljoin_cache = lru_cache(1024)(urljoin)
+            urljoin_cache = urljoin_cache_dec(urljoin)
         if remote_cache is None:
-            remote_cache = lru_cache(1024)(self.resolve_from_url)
+            remote_cache = remote_cache_dec(self.resolve_from_url)
 
         self.referrer = referrer
         self.cache_remote = cache_remote