Callander is a village in the council location of Stirling, Scotland, situated on the River Teith. The community is located in the historic county of Perthshire and is a preferred vacationer quit to as well as from the Highlands. The community serves as the eastern gateway to the Loch Lomond and also the Trossachs National Park, the first National Park in Scotland, and is usually described as the "Gateway to the Highlands". Dominating the town to the north are the Callander Crags, a visible part of the Highland Boundary Fault, rising to 343 metres (1,125 feet) at the . Ben Ledi (879 metres, 2,884 feet) exists north-west of Callander. Popular regional walks consist of Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and also the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Method goes through Callander. The community rests on the Trossachs Predator Route. The River Teith is developed from the convergence of 2 smaller rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) and Eas Gobhain about 1/3 mile (500 m) west of the bridge at Callander. A 19th century Gothic church stands in the town square, named after Saint Kessog, an Irish missionary who is said to have preached in the area in the sixth-century. The church closed in 1985 as well as between 1990 as well as 2006 the building, after going through substantial interior modifications, was residence to a visitor centre and also audio-visual destination telling the tale of neighborhood outlaw, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church structure was inhabited by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland in between 2015 as well as 2018, yet it now lies empty. Established in 1892, McLaren High School enlightens pupils aged 11 to 18 from a wide catchment area expanding as for Killin, Tyndrum and Inversnaid. Callander accomplished importance during the 1960s as the fictional setup "Tannochbrae" in the BBC tv series Dr. Finlay's Casebook. In 2018 Callander was named Scotland's First Social Enterprise Place, [9] due to the amount of social venture activity within the community. This includes Callander Neighborhood Hydro Ltd., a community possessed renewable resource task which disperses funds to a range of neighborhood tasks.