diff --git a/web-common/src/features/dashboards/proto-state/dashboard-url-state.spec.ts b/web-common/src/features/dashboards/proto-state/dashboard-url-state.spec.ts
index 9cca3fb1241..cb9a2fcfc2d 100644
--- a/web-common/src/features/dashboards/proto-state/dashboard-url-state.spec.ts
+++ b/web-common/src/features/dashboards/proto-state/dashboard-url-state.spec.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import {
   useDashboardDefaultProto,
   useDashboardUrlSync,
 } from "@rilldata/web-common/features/dashboards/proto-state/dashboard-url-state";
-import { getDashboardStateFromUrl } from "@rilldata/web-common/features/dashboards/proto-state/fromProto";
 import { getProtoFromDashboardState } from "@rilldata/web-common/features/dashboards/proto-state/toProto";
 import { metricsExplorerStore } from "@rilldata/web-common/features/dashboards/stores/dashboard-stores";
 import {
@@ -79,7 +78,7 @@ describe("useDashboardUrlSync", () => {
 
   beforeEach(() => {
     resetDashboardStore();
-    pageMock.goto("/dashboard/AdBids");
+    pageMock.goto(`/explore/${AD_BIDS_EXPLORE_NAME}`);
     pageMock.gotoSpy.mockClear();
   });
 
@@ -222,8 +221,8 @@ type PageMock = Readable<Page> & {
 };
 function createPageMock() {
   const { update, subscribe } = writable<Page>({
-    url: new URL("http://localhost/dashboard/AdBids"),
-    params: { name: "AdBids" },
+    url: new URL("http://localhost/explore/AdBids_explore"),
+    params: { name: "AdBids_explore" },
   } as any);
 
   pageMock.subscribe = subscribe;
@@ -231,12 +230,12 @@ function createPageMock() {
     update((page) => {
       if (state) {
         page.url = new URL(
-          `http://localhost/dashboard/AdBids?state=${encodeURIComponent(
+          `http://localhost/explore/AdBids_explore?state=${encodeURIComponent(
             state,
           )}`,
         );
       } else {
-        page.url = new URL("http://localhost/dashboard/AdBids");
+        page.url = new URL("http://localhost/explore/AdBids_explore");
       }
       return page;
     });
diff --git a/web-common/src/features/dashboards/proto-state/sparse-proto.spec.ts b/web-common/src/features/dashboards/proto-state/sparse-proto.spec.ts
index 3d2b2b6514d..8661ac2ffa6 100644
--- a/web-common/src/features/dashboards/proto-state/sparse-proto.spec.ts
+++ b/web-common/src/features/dashboards/proto-state/sparse-proto.spec.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import {
   AD_BIDS_EXPLORE_INIT,
   AD_BIDS_EXPLORE_NAME,
   AD_BIDS_METRICS_INIT,
-  AD_BIDS_NAME,
   AD_BIDS_SCHEMA,
   AD_BIDS_TIME_RANGE_SUMMARY,
 } from "@rilldata/web-common/features/dashboards/stores/test-data/data";
diff --git a/web-common/src/features/dashboards/state-managers/state-managers.ts b/web-common/src/features/dashboards/state-managers/state-managers.ts
index 3f650cd29c5..0943cf87df7 100644
--- a/web-common/src/features/dashboards/state-managers/state-managers.ts
+++ b/web-common/src/features/dashboards/state-managers/state-managers.ts
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ export function createStateManagers({
   const validSpecStore: Readable<
     QueryObserverResult<ValidExploreResponse, RpcStatus>
   > = derived([runtime, exploreNameStore], ([r, exploreName], set) =>
-    useValidExplore(r.instanceId, exploreName).subscribe(set),
+    useValidExplore(r.instanceId, exploreName, { queryClient }).subscribe(set),
   );
 
   const timeRangeSummaryStore: Readable<
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ export function createStateManagers({
         {},
         {
           query: {
-            queryClient: queryClient,
+            queryClient,
             enabled: !!validSpec?.data?.metricsView?.timeDimension,
           },
         },
diff --git a/web-common/src/features/dashboards/time-controls/time-control-store.spec.ts b/web-common/src/features/dashboards/time-controls/time-control-store.spec.ts
index 7e1ceb7a70c..64409ee9650 100644
--- a/web-common/src/features/dashboards/time-controls/time-control-store.spec.ts
+++ b/web-common/src/features/dashboards/time-controls/time-control-store.spec.ts
@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ describe("time-control-store", () => {
       "2022-04-01T00:00:00.000Z",
     );
 
+    console.log("refetch");
     dashboardFetchMocks.mockMetricsExplore(
       AD_BIDS_EXPLORE_NAME,
       AD_BIDS_METRICS_INIT_WITH_TIME,
diff --git a/web-common/src/features/explores/selectors.ts b/web-common/src/features/explores/selectors.ts
index 45a10c6ba29..7bbe3f4889c 100644
--- a/web-common/src/features/explores/selectors.ts
+++ b/web-common/src/features/explores/selectors.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
   RpcStatus,
   V1ExploreSpec,
   V1GetExploreResponse,
+  V1GetResourceResponse,
   type V1MetricsViewSpec,
 } from "@rilldata/web-common/runtime-client";
 import { ErrorType } from "@rilldata/web-common/runtime-client/http-client";
@@ -31,19 +32,35 @@ export type ValidExploreResponse = {
   explore: V1ExploreSpec | undefined;
   metricsView: V1MetricsViewSpec | undefined;
 };
-export function useValidExplore(instanceId: string, exploreName: string) {
+export function useValidExplore(
+  instanceId: string,
+  exploreName: string,
+  queryOptions?: CreateQueryOptions<
+    V1GetExploreResponse,
+    ErrorType<RpcStatus>,
+    ValidExploreResponse
+  >,
+) {
+  const defaultQueryOptions: CreateQueryOptions<
+    V1GetExploreResponse,
+    ErrorType<RpcStatus>,
+    ValidExploreResponse
+  > = {
+    select: (data) =>
+      <ValidExploreResponse>{
+        explore: data.explore?.explore?.state?.validSpec,
+        metricsView: data.metricsView?.metricsView?.state?.validSpec,
+      },
+    queryClient,
+    enabled: !!exploreName,
+  };
   return createRuntimeServiceGetExplore(
     instanceId,
     { name: exploreName },
     {
       query: {
-        select: (data) =>
-          <ValidExploreResponse>{
-            explore: data.explore?.explore?.state?.validSpec,
-            metricsView: data.metricsView?.metricsView?.state?.validSpec,
-          },
-        queryClient,
-        enabled: !!exploreName,
+        ...defaultQueryOptions,
+        ...queryOptions,
       },
     },
   );