Callander is a small town in the council location of Stirling, Scotland, located on the River Teith. The town is located in the historic county of Perthshire and is a preferred vacationer stop to as well as from the Highlands. The town acts as the eastern portal to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, the very first National Park in Scotland, and is frequently described as the "Gateway to the Highlands". Dominating the community to the north are the Callander Crags, a noticeable part of the Highland Boundary Fault, rising to 343 metres (1,125 ft) at the . Ben Ledi (879 metres, 2,884 feet) lies north-west of Callander. Popular local strolls consist of Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags as well as the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Way goes through Callander. The community rests on the Trossachs Bird of Prey Path. The River Teith is developed from the confluence of 2 smaller rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) as well as Eas Gobhain concerning 1/3 mile (500 m) west of the bridge at Callander. A 19th century Gothic church stands in the community square, named after Saint Kessog, an Irish missionary that is stated to have preached in the location in the sixth-century. The church enclosed 1985 and in between 1990 as well as 2006 the building, after going through significant interior alterations, was home to a visitor centre as well as audio-visual attraction telling the story of local hooligan, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church structure was occupied by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland in between 2015 as well as 2018, yet it currently exists empty. Founded in 1892, McLaren High School enlightens students aged 11 to 18 from a broad catchment area prolonging as for Killin, Tyndrum as well as Inversnaid. Callander attained importance during the 1960s as the fictional setting "Tannochbrae" in the BBC television series Dr. Finlay's Casebook. In 2018 Callander was named Scotland's First Social Enterprise Place, [9] because of the quantity of social enterprise activity within the town. This consists of Callander Neighborhood Hydro Ltd., a neighborhood possessed renewable resource job which disperses funds to a variety of regional tasks.