Dave Evans Bicentennial Tree

This is a lookout tree that never looked out for a fire. The karri lookouts around Pemberton were pegged in the 1930s and 1940s so foresters could spot smoke over the forest. This one was pegged in 1988, for the Australian Bicentenary. It carries the name of Dave Evans, a local teacher and politician with an interest in tree towers. A spiral of metal pegs runs up the trunk, 165 of them by one count and 130 by another, to a platform about 20 metres up and a hut at the top, above the canopy. Of the three climbing trees around Pemberton, the Gloucester Tree, the Diamond Tree and this one, it is the tallest. How tall depends on who you ask: 75 metres in one parks listing, 68 in the parks service's Pemberton brochure, 65 on Wikipedia. Nobody has published a girth or an age either, so if you know of one, tell us. It is in the middle of an overhaul. The pegs and the ladder mesh were renewed in 2026, and the whole site was shut for the work until 2 October. It has reopened, but the tree itself stays closed to climbers until the end of November 2026, so check with the Pemberton Visitor Centre before counting on a climb. It stands in Warren National Park off Old Vasse Road, about 15 kilometres south of Pemberton by car. A park entry fee applies; the climb costs nothing extra.