diff --git a/packages/now-next/src/index.ts b/packages/now-next/src/index.ts
index 52ce1725f..897c45378 100644
--- a/packages/now-next/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/now-next/src/index.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { ChildProcess, fork } from 'child_process';
+import url from 'url'
 import {
   pathExists,
   readFile,
@@ -54,8 +55,14 @@ import {
   syncEnvVars,
   validateEntrypoint,
   getSourceFilePathFromPage,
+  getRoutesManifest,
 } from './utils';
 
+import {
+  convertRedirects,
+  convertRewrites
+} from '@now/routing-utils/dist/superstatic'
+
 interface BuildParamsMeta {
   isDev: boolean | undefined;
   env?: EnvConfig;
@@ -825,10 +832,14 @@ export const build = async ({
   let dynamicPrefix = path.join('/', entryDirectory);
   dynamicPrefix = dynamicPrefix === '/' ? '' : dynamicPrefix;
 
+  const routesManifest = await getRoutesManifest(entryPath, realNextVersion)
+
   const dynamicRoutes = await getDynamicRoutes(
     entryPath,
     entryDirectory,
-    dynamicPages
+    dynamicPages,
+    false,
+    routesManifest
   ).then(arr =>
     arr.map(route => {
       // make sure .html is added to dest for now until
@@ -841,6 +852,26 @@ export const build = async ({
     })
   );
 
+  const rewrites: Route[] = []
+  const redirects: Route[] = []
+
+  if (routesManifest) {
+    switch(routesManifest.version) {
+      case 1: {
+        redirects.push(...convertRedirects(routesManifest.redirects))
+        rewrites.push(...convertRewrites(routesManifest.rewrites))
+        break
+      }
+      default: {
+        // update MIN_ROUTES_MANIFEST_VERSION in ./utils.ts
+        throw new Error(
+          'This version of `@now/next` does not support the version of Next.js you are trying to deploy.\n' +
+            'Please upgrade your `@now/next` builder and try again. Contact support if this continues to happen.'
+        );
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   return {
     output: {
       ...publicDirectoryFiles,
@@ -852,6 +883,8 @@ export const build = async ({
       ...staticDirectoryFiles,
     },
     routes: [
+      ...redirects,
+      ...rewrites,
       // Static exported pages (.html rewrites)
       ...exportedPageRoutes,
       // Before we handle static files we need to set proper caching headers
diff --git a/packages/now-next/src/utils.ts b/packages/now-next/src/utils.ts
index e279ae6bf..35406c250 100644
--- a/packages/now-next/src/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/now-next/src/utils.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import zlib from 'zlib';
 import path from 'path';
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
+import semver from 'semver';
 import { ZipFile } from 'yazl';
 import crc32 from 'buffer-crc32';
 import { Sema } from 'async-sema';
@@ -291,15 +292,38 @@ async function getRoutes(
   return routes;
 }
 
-export async function getDynamicRoutes(
+export type Rewrite = {
+  source: string,
+  destination: string,
+}
+
+export type Redirect = Rewrite & {
+  statusCode?: number
+}
+
+type RoutesManifestRegex = {
+  regex: string,
+  regexKeys: string[]
+}
+
+export type RoutesManifest = {
+  redirects: (Redirect & RoutesManifestRegex)[],
+  rewrites: (Rewrite & RoutesManifestRegex)[],
+  dynamicRoutes: {
+    page: string,
+    regex: string,
+  }[],
+  version: number
+}
+
+export async function getRoutesManifest(
   entryPath: string,
-  entryDirectory: string,
-  dynamicPages: string[],
-  isDev?: boolean
-): Promise<{ src: string; dest: string }[]> {
-  if (!dynamicPages.length) {
-    return [];
-  }
+  nextVersion?: string,
+): Promise< RoutesManifest | undefined> {
+  const shouldHaveManifest = (
+    nextVersion && semver.gte(nextVersion, '9.1.4-canary.0')
+  )
+  if (!shouldHaveManifest) return
 
   const pathRoutesManifest = path.join(
     entryPath,
@@ -311,11 +335,30 @@ export async function getDynamicRoutes(
     .then(() => true)
     .catch(() => false);
 
-  if (hasRoutesManifest) {
-    const routesManifest = await fs.readJSON(pathRoutesManifest);
+  if (shouldHaveManifest && !hasRoutesManifest) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `A routes-manifest.json couldn't be found. This could be due to a failure during the build`
+    )
+  }
 
+  const routesManifest: RoutesManifest = require(pathRoutesManifest)
+
+  return routesManifest
+}
+
+export async function getDynamicRoutes(
+  entryPath: string,
+  entryDirectory: string,
+  dynamicPages: string[],
+  isDev?: boolean,
+  routesManifest?: RoutesManifest
+): Promise<{ src: string; dest: string }[]> {
+  if (!dynamicPages.length) {
+    return [];
+  }
+
+  if (routesManifest) {
     switch (routesManifest.version) {
-      case 0:
       case 1: {
         return routesManifest.dynamicRoutes.map(
           ({ page, regex }: { page: string; regex: string }) => {
@@ -327,6 +370,7 @@ export async function getDynamicRoutes(
         );
       }
       default: {
+        // update MIN_ROUTES_MANIFEST_VERSION
         throw new Error(
           'This version of `@now/next` does not support the version of Next.js you are trying to deploy.\n' +
             'Please upgrade your `@now/next` builder and try again. Contact support if this continues to happen.'
@@ -338,9 +382,6 @@ export async function getDynamicRoutes(
   // FALLBACK:
   // When `routes-manifest.json` does not exist (old Next.js versions), we'll try to
   // require the methods we need from Next.js' internals.
-  //
-  // TODO: implement this branch behind a Next.js version check so we don't "fallback"
-  // to this behavior blindly.
   let getRouteRegex:
     | ((pageName: string) => { re: RegExp })
     | undefined = undefined;
diff --git a/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/next.config.js b/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/next.config.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8b95cce11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/next.config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+module.exports = {
+  experimental: {
+    async redirects() {
+      return [
+        {
+          source: '/redir1',
+          destination: '/redir2',
+          statusCode: 301
+        },
+        {
+          source: '/redir2',
+          destination: '/hello',
+          statusCode: 307
+        },
+        {
+          source: '/redir/:path',
+          destination: '/:path'
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    async rewrites() {
+      return [
+        {
+          source: '/rewrite1',
+          destination: '/rewrite2'
+        },
+        {
+          source: '/rewrite2',
+          destination: '/hello'
+        },
+        {
+          source: '/rewrite/:first/:second',
+          destination: '/rewrite-2/hello/:second'
+        },
+        {
+          source: '/rewrite-2/:first/:second',
+          destination: '/params'
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/now.json b/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/now.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2b028ad0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/now.json
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+{
+  "version": 2,
+  "builds": [{ "src": "package.json", "use": "@now/next" }],
+  "probes": [
+    {
+      "path": "/redir1",
+      "fetchOptions": {
+        "redirect": "manual"
+      },
+      "status": 301,
+      "responseHeaders": {
+        "location": "/redir2/"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "/redir2",
+      "fetchOptions": {
+        "redirect": "manual"
+      },
+      "status": 307,
+      "responseHeaders": {
+        "location": "/hello/"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "/redir/hello",
+      "fetchOptions": {
+        "redirect": "manual"
+      },
+      "responseHeadersCo": {
+        "location": "/hello/"
+      },
+      "status": 307
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "/rewrite1",
+      "mustContain": "hello world!"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "/rewrite2",
+      "mustContain": "hello world!"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "/rewrite/THIS_SHOULD_BE_GONE/another",
+      "mustContain": "hello"
+    },
+    {
+      "path": "/rewrite/THIS_SHOULD_BE_GONE/another",
+      "mustContain": "another"
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/package.json b/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..02fe0e323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "dependencies": {
+    "next": "^9.1.4-canary.1",
+    "react": "^16.8.6",
+    "react-dom": "^16.8.6"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/pages/hello.js b/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/pages/hello.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..03132b06c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/pages/hello.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export default () => 'hello world!'
diff --git a/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/pages/params.js b/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/pages/params.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0b4ed8c73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/now-next/test/fixtures/07-custom-routes/pages/params.js
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import { useRouter } from 'next/router'
+
+const Page = () => {
+  const { query } = useRouter()
+  return <p>{JSON.stringify(query)}</p>
+}
+
+Page.getInitialProps = () => ({ a: 'b' })
+
+export default Page
diff --git a/test/lib/deployment/test-deployment.js b/test/lib/deployment/test-deployment.js
index 47fd12cb8..2795a3dc3 100644
--- a/test/lib/deployment/test-deployment.js
+++ b/test/lib/deployment/test-deployment.js
@@ -89,7 +89,11 @@ async function testDeployment (
       continue;
     }
     const probeUrl = `https://${deploymentUrl}${probe.path}`;
-    const fetchOpts = { method: probe.method, headers: { ...probe.headers } };
+    const fetchOpts = {
+      ...probe.fetchOptions,
+      method: probe.method,
+      headers: { ...probe.headers },
+    };
     if (probe.body) {
       fetchOpts.headers['content-type'] = 'application/json';
       fetchOpts.body = JSON.stringify(probe.body);