Lookout tree

These "platform trees" were often equipped with telephones, fire finder tables, seats and guy wires.

[1] Lookout trees were widely used in the Kaibab National Forest of northern Arizona,[2] and Washington, United States as well as in Australia.

The Dave Evans Bicentennial Tree in Western Australia reaches 75m, while the tallest lookout in the United States was the Cook Creek Spar Tree near Lake Quinault, Washington, at 179 feet (55 m) high from 1927 to 1955.

[5] Lookout trees were used as ad hoc towers throughout the American West in the early 20th century.

[1] The Look See Tree in Coleman, Arkansas was used as a fire lookout for roughly ten to fifteen years from c. 1930 to c. 1940.