diff --git a/crates/core/Cargo.toml b/crates/core/Cargo.toml
index 845f7ac3..b6b9db4d 100644
--- a/crates/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ geoparquet-compression = [
     "parquet/lz4",
     "parquet/zstd",
 ]
-object-store = ["dep:object_store"]
+object-store = ["dep:object_store", "dep:tokio"]
 object-store-aws = ["object-store", "object_store/aws"]
 object-store-azure = ["object-store", "object_store/azure"]
 object-store-gcp = ["object-store", "object_store/gcp"]
diff --git a/crates/core/src/error.rs b/crates/core/src/error.rs
index 4834ed50..500d65ac 100644
--- a/crates/core/src/error.rs
+++ b/crates/core/src/error.rs
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ pub enum Error {
 
     /// [tokio::task::JoinError]
     #[error(transparent)]
-    #[cfg(feature = "validate")]
+    #[cfg(any(feature = "validate", feature = "object-store"))]
     TokioJoin(#[from] tokio::task::JoinError),
 
     /// [std::num::TryFromIntError]
diff --git a/crates/core/src/lib.rs b/crates/core/src/lib.rs
index e60f7ea1..34da8cc1 100644
--- a/crates/core/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/core/src/lib.rs
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ mod item_collection;
 mod json;
 mod ndjson;
 mod node;
+#[cfg(feature = "object-store")]
+mod resolver;
 mod statistics;
 #[cfg(feature = "validate")]
 mod validate;
@@ -176,6 +178,8 @@ mod value;
 
 use std::fmt::Display;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "object-store")]
+pub use resolver::Resolver;
 pub use stac_types::{mime, Fields, Href, Link, Links, Migrate, SelfHref, Version, STAC_VERSION};
 #[cfg(feature = "validate-blocking")]
 pub use validate::ValidateBlocking;
@@ -197,7 +201,7 @@ pub use {
     item_collection::ItemCollection,
     json::{FromJson, ToJson},
     ndjson::{FromNdjson, ToNdjson},
-    node::Node,
+    node::{Container, Node},
     statistics::Statistics,
     value::Value,
 };
diff --git a/crates/core/src/node.rs b/crates/core/src/node.rs
index 971de02a..9a3fdada 100644
--- a/crates/core/src/node.rs
+++ b/crates/core/src/node.rs
@@ -32,41 +32,26 @@ pub struct IntoValues {
     items: VecDeque<Item>,
 }
 
+/// A resolver that uses object store.
 impl Node {
     /// Resolves all child and item links in this node.
     ///
+    /// This method uses [crate::Resolver] to resolve links.
+    ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
     /// ```
     /// use stac::{Catalog, Node};
     ///
     /// let mut node: Node = stac::read::<Catalog>("examples/catalog.json").unwrap().into();
-    /// node.resolve().unwrap();
+    /// # tokio_test::block_on(async {
+    /// let node = node.resolve().await.unwrap();
+    /// });
     /// ```
-    pub fn resolve(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
-        let links = std::mem::take(self.value.links_mut());
-        let href = self.value.self_href().cloned();
-        for mut link in links {
-            if link.is_child() {
-                if let Some(href) = &href {
-                    link.make_absolute(href)?;
-                }
-                // TODO enable object store
-                tracing::debug!("resolving child: {}", link.href);
-                let child: Container = crate::read::<Value>(link.href)?.try_into()?;
-                self.children.push_back(child.into());
-            } else if link.is_item() {
-                if let Some(href) = &href {
-                    link.make_absolute(href)?;
-                }
-                tracing::debug!("resolving item: {}", link.href);
-                let item = crate::read::<Item>(link.href)?;
-                self.items.push_back(item);
-            } else {
-                self.value.links_mut().push(link);
-            }
-        }
-        Ok(())
+    #[cfg(feature = "object-store")]
+    pub async fn resolve(self) -> Result<Node> {
+        let resolver = crate::Resolver::default();
+        resolver.resolve(self).await
     }
 
     /// Creates a consuming iterator over this node and its children and items.
@@ -205,7 +190,7 @@ impl SelfHref for Container {
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::Node;
-    use crate::{Catalog, Collection, Links};
+    use crate::{Catalog, Collection};
 
     #[test]
     fn into_node() {
@@ -213,12 +198,15 @@ mod tests {
         let _ = Node::from(Collection::new("an-id", "a description"));
     }
 
-    #[test]
-    fn resolve() {
-        let mut node: Node = crate::read::<Catalog>("examples/catalog.json")
+    #[tokio::test]
+    #[cfg(feature = "object-store")]
+    async fn resolve() {
+        use crate::Links;
+
+        let node: Node = crate::read::<Catalog>("examples/catalog.json")
             .unwrap()
             .into();
-        node.resolve().unwrap();
+        let node = node.resolve().await.unwrap();
         assert_eq!(node.children.len(), 3);
         assert_eq!(node.items.len(), 1);
         assert_eq!(node.value.links().len(), 2);
diff --git a/crates/core/src/resolver.rs b/crates/core/src/resolver.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b31e0efd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/core/src/resolver.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+use crate::{Container, Links, Node, Result, SelfHref, Value};
+use std::{future::Future, pin::Pin};
+use tokio::task::JoinSet;
+use url::Url;
+
+/// An object that uses object store to resolve links.
+#[derive(Debug, Default)]
+#[cfg(feature = "object-store")]
+pub struct Resolver {
+    recursive: bool,
+    use_items_endpoint: bool,
+}
+
+impl Resolver {
+    /// Resolves the links of a node.
+    pub fn resolve(&self, mut node: Node) -> Pin<Box<impl Future<Output = Result<Node>> + '_>> {
+        Box::pin(async {
+            let links = std::mem::take(node.value.links_mut());
+            let href = node.value.self_href().cloned();
+            let mut join_set = JoinSet::new();
+            for mut link in links {
+                if link.is_child() {
+                    if let Some(href) = &href {
+                        link.make_absolute(href)?;
+                    }
+                    let _ = join_set
+                        .spawn(async move { (crate::io::get::<Value>(link.href).await, true) });
+                } else if !self.use_items_endpoint && link.is_item() {
+                    if let Some(href) = &href {
+                        link.make_absolute(href)?;
+                    }
+                    let _ = join_set.spawn(async move { (crate::io::get(link.href).await, false) });
+                } else if self.use_items_endpoint && link.rel == "items" {
+                    let mut url: Url = link.href.try_into()?;
+                    // TODO make this configurable
+                    let _ = url
+                        .query_pairs_mut()
+                        .append_pair("limit", "1")
+                        .append_pair("sortby", "-properties.datetime");
+                    let _ = join_set.spawn(async move { (crate::io::get(url).await, false) });
+                } else {
+                    node.value.links_mut().push(link);
+                }
+            }
+            while let Some(result) = join_set.join_next().await {
+                let (result, is_child) = result?;
+                let value = result?;
+                if is_child {
+                    let child = Container::try_from(value)?.into();
+                    node.children.push_back(child);
+                } else if let Value::ItemCollection(item_collection) = value {
+                    node.items.extend(item_collection.into_iter());
+                } else {
+                    node.items.push_back(value.try_into()?);
+                }
+            }
+            if self.recursive {
+                let children = std::mem::take(&mut node.children);
+                for child in children {
+                    node.children.push_back(self.resolve(child).await?);
+                }
+            }
+            Ok(node)
+        })
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/types/src/href.rs b/crates/types/src/href.rs
index dec2eaa8..469027b6 100644
--- a/crates/types/src/href.rs
+++ b/crates/types/src/href.rs
@@ -214,10 +214,20 @@ impl From<PathBuf> for Href {
     }
 }
 
+impl TryFrom<Href> for Url {
+    type Error = Error;
+    fn try_from(value: Href) -> Result<Self> {
+        match value {
+            Href::Url(url) => Ok(url),
+            Href::String(s) => s.parse().map_err(Error::from),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(feature = "reqwest")]
 impl From<reqwest::Url> for Href {
     fn from(value: reqwest::Url) -> Self {
-        Href::Url(url::Url::from(value))
+        Href::Url(value)
     }
 }
 
@@ -241,7 +251,7 @@ fn make_absolute(href: &str, base: &str) -> String {
     } else {
         let (base, _) = base.split_at(base.rfind('/').unwrap_or(0));
         if base.is_empty() {
-            normalize_path(&href)
+            normalize_path(href)
         } else {
             normalize_path(&format!("{}/{}", base, href))
         }