diff --git a/.changeset/gentle-ladybugs-tap.md b/.changeset/gentle-ladybugs-tap.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..373940bd7a9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/gentle-ladybugs-tap.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+"wrangler": patch
+---
+
+fix: resolve asset handler for `--experimental-path`
+
+In https://github.com/cloudflare/wrangler2/pull/1241, we removed the vendored version of `@cloudflare/kv-asset-handler`, as well as the build configuration that would point to the vendored version when compining a worker using `--experimental-public`. However, wrangler can be used where it's not installed in the `package.json` for the worker, or even when there's no package.json at all (like when wrangler is installed globally, or used with `npx`). In this situation, if the user doesn't have `@cloudflare/kv-asset-handler` installed, then building the worker will fail. We don't want to make the user install this themselves, so instead we point to a barrel import for the library in the facade for the worker.
diff --git a/packages/wrangler/kv-asset-handler.js b/packages/wrangler/kv-asset-handler.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..efa97cbd59f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/wrangler/kv-asset-handler.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export * from "@cloudflare/kv-asset-handler";
diff --git a/packages/wrangler/package.json b/packages/wrangler/package.json
index 313d165fd1ca..c1846776d69b 100644
--- a/packages/wrangler/package.json
+++ b/packages/wrangler/package.json
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@
     "templates",
     "vendor",
     "import_meta_url.js",
+    "kv-asset-handler.js",
     "Cloudflare_CA.pem"
   ],
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/packages/wrangler/src/__tests__/publish.test.ts b/packages/wrangler/src/__tests__/publish.test.ts
index 9454c86a6622..91815ac68e24 100644
--- a/packages/wrangler/src/__tests__/publish.test.ts
+++ b/packages/wrangler/src/__tests__/publish.test.ts
@@ -1404,6 +1404,42 @@ addEventListener('fetch', event => {});`
       expect(std.err).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`""`);
     });
 
+    it("should upload all the files in the directory specified by `--experimental-public`", async () => {
+      const assets = [
+        { filePath: "file-1.txt", content: "Content of file-1" },
+        { filePath: "file-2.txt", content: "Content of file-2" },
+      ];
+      const kvNamespace = {
+        title: "__test-name-workers_sites_assets",
+        id: "__test-name-workers_sites_assets-id",
+      };
+      writeWranglerToml({
+        main: "./index.js",
+      });
+      writeWorkerSource();
+      writeAssets(assets);
+      mockUploadWorkerRequest({
+        expectedMainModule: "stdin.js",
+      });
+      mockSubDomainRequest();
+      mockListKVNamespacesRequest(kvNamespace);
+      mockKeyListRequest(kvNamespace.id, []);
+      mockUploadAssetsToKVRequest(kvNamespace.id, assets);
+      await runWrangler("publish --experimental-public assets");
+
+      expect(std.out).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+        "Reading file-1.txt...
+        Uploading as file-1.2ca234f380.txt...
+        Reading file-2.txt...
+        Uploading as file-2.5938485188.txt...
+        ↗️  Done syncing assets
+        Uploaded test-name (TIMINGS)
+        Published test-name (TIMINGS)
+          test-name.test-sub-domain.workers.dev"
+      `);
+      expect(std.err).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`""`);
+    });
+
     it("should not contain backslash for assets with nested directories", async () => {
       const assets = [
         { filePath: "subdir/file-1.txt", content: "Content of file-1" },
@@ -5311,6 +5347,7 @@ function mockUploadWorkerRequest(
   options: {
     available_on_subdomain?: boolean;
     expectedEntry?: string;
+    expectedMainModule?: string;
     expectedType?: "esm" | "sw";
     expectedBindings?: unknown;
     expectedModules?: Record<string, string>;
@@ -5324,6 +5361,7 @@ function mockUploadWorkerRequest(
   const {
     available_on_subdomain = true,
     expectedEntry,
+    expectedMainModule = "index.js",
     expectedType = "esm",
     expectedBindings,
     expectedModules = {},
@@ -5358,7 +5396,7 @@ function mockUploadWorkerRequest(
         formBody.get("metadata") as string
       ) as WorkerMetadata;
       if (expectedType === "esm") {
-        expect(metadata.main_module).toEqual("index.js");
+        expect(metadata.main_module).toEqual(expectedMainModule);
       } else {
         expect(metadata.body_part).toEqual("index.js");
       }
diff --git a/packages/wrangler/src/bundle.ts b/packages/wrangler/src/bundle.ts
index 2572fffdaf09..2f1ba156881b 100644
--- a/packages/wrangler/src/bundle.ts
+++ b/packages/wrangler/src/bundle.ts
@@ -175,7 +175,14 @@ function getEntryPoint(
             path.join(__dirname, "../templates/static-asset-facade.js"),
             "utf8"
           )
-          .replace("__ENTRY_POINT__", entryFile),
+          // on windows, escape backslashes in the path (`\`)
+          .replace("__ENTRY_POINT__", entryFile.replaceAll("\\", "\\\\"))
+          .replace(
+            "__KV_ASSET_HANDLER__",
+            path
+              .join(__dirname, "../kv-asset-handler.js")
+              .replaceAll("\\", "\\\\")
+          ),
         sourcefile: "static-asset-facade.js",
         resolveDir: path.dirname(entryFile),
       },
diff --git a/packages/wrangler/templates/static-asset-facade.js b/packages/wrangler/templates/static-asset-facade.js
index 06412925d1df..8c932dceeb16 100644
--- a/packages/wrangler/templates/static-asset-facade.js
+++ b/packages/wrangler/templates/static-asset-facade.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // DO NOT IMPORT THIS DIRECTLY
 import worker from "__ENTRY_POINT__";
-import { getAssetFromKV } from "@cloudflare/kv-asset-handler";
+import { getAssetFromKV } from "__KV_ASSET_HANDLER__";
 import manifest from "__STATIC_CONTENT_MANIFEST";
 const ASSET_MANIFEST = JSON.parse(manifest);