diff --git a/docs/Trainer/Checkpointing.md b/docs/Trainer/Checkpointing.md
index de99f9589b..be982334cb 100644
--- a/docs/Trainer/Checkpointing.md
+++ b/docs/Trainer/Checkpointing.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ To enable checkpointing, define the checkpoint callback and give it to the train
 from pytorch_lightning.callbacks import ModelCheckpoint
 
 checkpoint_callback = ModelCheckpoint(
-    filepath='/path/to/store/weights.ckpt',
+    filepath='/path/to/store/weights/',
     save_best_only=True,
     verbose=True,
     monitor='val_loss',