diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1953348..e2e797a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 description = "Implementation of the PMTiles v3 spec with multiple sync and async backends."
 repository = "https://github.com/stadiamaps/pmtiles-rs"
 keywords = ["pmtiles", "gis", "geo"]
-rust-version = "1.68.2"
+rust-version = "1.77"
 categories = ["science::geo"]
 
 [features]
@@ -34,13 +34,12 @@ __async-s3-rustls = ["rust-s3?/tokio-rustls-tls"]
 [dependencies]
 # TODO: determine how we want to handle compression in async & sync environments
 async-compression = { version = "0.4", features = ["gzip", "zstd", "brotli"] }
-async-recursion = "1"
 async-trait = "0.1"
 bytes = "1"
 fmmap = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, optional = true }
 hilbert_2d = "1"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12.3", default-features = false, optional = true }
-rust-s3 = {  version = "0.33.0", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["fail-on-err"] }
+rust-s3 = { version = "0.33.0", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["fail-on-err"] }
 serde = { version = "1", optional = true }
 serde_json = { version = "1", optional = true }
 thiserror = "1"
diff --git a/src/async_reader.rs b/src/async_reader.rs
index 115db30..ff443d2 100644
--- a/src/async_reader.rs
+++ b/src/async_reader.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 //        so any file larger than 4GB, or an untrusted file with bad data may crash.
 #![allow(clippy::cast_possible_truncation)]
 
-use async_recursion::async_recursion;
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use bytes::Bytes;
 #[cfg(feature = "__async")]
@@ -148,7 +147,6 @@ impl<B: AsyncBackend + Sync + Send, C: DirectoryCache + Sync + Send> AsyncPmTile
         Ok(entry.cloned())
     }
 
-    #[async_recursion]
     async fn find_entry_rec(
         &self,
         tile_id: u64,
@@ -175,7 +173,7 @@ impl<B: AsyncBackend + Sync + Send, C: DirectoryCache + Sync + Send> AsyncPmTile
         if let Some(ref entry) = entry {
             if entry.is_leaf() {
                 return if depth <= 4 {
-                    self.find_entry_rec(tile_id, entry, depth + 1).await
+                    Box::pin(self.find_entry_rec(tile_id, entry, depth + 1)).await
                 } else {
                     Ok(None)
                 };