Callander is a town in the council area of Stirling, Scotland, located on the River Teith. The community lies in the historical county of Perthshire as well as is a prominent tourist quit to and also from the Highlands. The town serves as the eastern gateway to the Loch Lomond as well as the Trossachs National Park, the first National Park in Scotland, and also is typically referred to as the "Portal to the Highlands". Controling the town to the north are the Callander Crags, a visible part of the Highland Boundary Fault, rising to 343 metres (1,125 ft) at the cairn. Ben Ledi (879 metres, 2,884 feet) lies north-west of Callander. Popular local walks consist of Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags and also the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Method passes through Callander. The community remains on the Trossachs Predator Route. The River Teith is formed from the confluence of 2 smaller rivers, the Garbh Uisge (River Leny) and Eas Gobhain regarding 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 that is claimed to have actually taught in the area in the sixth-century. The church closed in 1985 and also in between 1990 and also 2006 the building, after undergoing substantial interior alterations, was residence to a site visitor centre as well as audio-visual tourist attraction telling the story of neighborhood criminal, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church structure was occupied by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland between 2015 and 2018, yet it currently exists vacant. Established in 1892, McLaren High School informs pupils aged 11 to 18 from a vast catchment area expanding as for Killin, Tyndrum as well as Inversnaid. Callander achieved importance throughout the 1960s as the fictional setting "Tannochbrae" in the BBC television series Dr. Finlay's Casebook. In 2018 Callander was called Scotland's First Social Enterprise Place, [9] as a result of the amount of social venture activity within the community. This includes Callander Neighborhood Hydro Ltd., an area owned renewable resource job which disperses funds to a variety of local projects.