diff --git a/crates/tor-chanmgr/Cargo.toml b/crates/tor-chanmgr/Cargo.toml
index 4b91a5e19..ae66e9b66 100644
--- a/crates/tor-chanmgr/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/tor-chanmgr/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ repository = "https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti.git/"
 
 [features]
 default = []
-experimental = []
+experimental = ["experimental-api"]
+experimental-api = []
 full = ["pt-client"]
 
 pt-client = ["tor-linkspec/pt-client"]
diff --git a/crates/tor-chanmgr/src/lib.rs b/crates/tor-chanmgr/src/lib.rs
index 98b707765..69e748c39 100644
--- a/crates/tor-chanmgr/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/tor-chanmgr/src/lib.rs
@@ -274,10 +274,8 @@ impl<R: Runtime> ChanMgr<R> {
     ///
     /// This method can be used to e.g. tell Arti to use a proxy for
     /// outgoing connections.
-    pub fn set_default_transport(
-        &self,
-        factory: impl factory::ChannelFactory + Send + Sync + 'static,
-    ) {
+    #[cfg(feature = "experimental-api")]
+    pub fn set_default_transport(&self, factory: impl factory::ChannelFactory + 'static) {
         // TODO pt-client: Perhaps we actually want to take this as part of the constructor instead?
         // TODO pt-client: It's not clear to me that we really need this method.
         // TODO pt-client: Should this method take an ArcFactory instead?