diff --git a/cloudpathlib/cloudpath.py b/cloudpathlib/cloudpath.py
index 8bad810d..e57c4af2 100644
--- a/cloudpathlib/cloudpath.py
+++ b/cloudpathlib/cloudpath.py
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ def __getstate__(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         state = self.__dict__.copy()
 
         # don't pickle client
-        del state["_client"]
+        if "_client" in state:
+            del state["_client"]
 
         return state
 
diff --git a/tests/test_cloudpath_serialize.py b/tests/test_cloudpath_serialize.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ae8857af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_cloudpath_serialize.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import pickle
+
+from cloudpathlib import CloudPath
+
+
+def test_pickle_roundtrip():
+    path1 = CloudPath("s3://bucket/key")
+    pkl1 = pickle.dumps(path1)
+
+    path2 = pickle.loads(pkl1)
+    pkl2 = pickle.dumps(path2)
+
+    assert path1 == path2
+    assert pkl1 == pkl2