Callander is a small town in the council area of Stirling, Scotland, positioned on the River Teith. The community is located in the historical area of Perthshire and is a preferred tourist stop to and also from the Highlands. The town functions as the eastern portal to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, the first National Park in Scotland, as well as is commonly described as the "Portal 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) exists north-west of Callander. Popular neighborhood strolls include Bracklinn Falls, The Meadows, Callander Crags as well as the Wood Walks. The Rob Roy Method passes through Callander. The community remains on the Trossachs Predator Trail. The River Teith is developed from the assemblage of two smaller sized 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 community square, called after Saint Kessog, an Irish missionary who is stated to have actually preached in the location in the sixth-century. The church closed in 1985 as well as in between 1990 and 2006 the building, after going through substantial indoor changes, was home to a visitor centre as well as audio-visual destination informing the tale of neighborhood hooligan, Rob Roy MacGregor. The church building was inhabited by The Clanranald Trust for Scotland in between 2015 and also 2018, however it currently lies empty. Established in 1892, McLaren High School informs students aged 11 to 18 from a wide catchment area expanding as for Killin, Tyndrum and Inversnaid. Callander attained prominence throughout 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] because of the amount of social venture task within the community. This includes Callander Neighborhood Hydro Ltd., an area owned renewable resource task which disperses funds to a selection of neighborhood projects.