Gill's Guidebook
Food Scene
Lovely menu including vegan and vegetarian along with a great range regular pub food, daily meal deals and a good drinks menu.
The team are friendly and helpful and dogs are welcome.
The Waverley Hotel
88-94 Main StreetLovely menu including vegan and vegetarian along with a great range regular pub food, daily meal deals and a good drinks menu.
The team are friendly and helpful and dogs are welcome.
Fabulous locals and visitors hotel. The bar is cosy and very friendly. Great open fire during the cooler months.
The menu is tasty and they have a great additional Indian food menu for sit in or takeaway, very tasty!
The Crags Hotel
101 Main StFabulous locals and visitors hotel. The bar is cosy and very friendly. Great open fire during the cooler months.
The menu is tasty and they have a great additional Indian food menu for sit in or takeaway, very tasty!
The best wee cafe/restaurant for tasty breakfasts and luscious lunches.
Tracey and her team will make you feel very welcome with a great menu!
Lovely patio garden at the back for those sunny days!
Munchys
120 Main StreetThe best wee cafe/restaurant for tasty breakfasts and luscious lunches.
Tracey and her team will make you feel very welcome with a great menu!
Lovely patio garden at the back for those sunny days!
Sightseeing
The Duke's Pass connects Loch Achray and Aberfoyle in a magnificent climb by car, bike or cycle up hair pin bends to a viewing point where on a good day it's said you can see all the way to the East Coast!
Coming down on the Aberfoyle side you can stop at the David Marshall Lodge and learn about our fabulous area or if you are brave and heights are no issue then you can try out Go Ape! and the fabulous zip wire to the forest assault course in the trees!
Duke's Pass
Duke's PassThe Duke's Pass connects Loch Achray and Aberfoyle in a magnificent climb by car, bike or cycle up hair pin bends to a viewing point where on a good day it's said you can see all the way to the East Coast!
Coming down on the Aberfoyle side you can stop at the David Marshall Lodge and learn about our fabulous area or if you are brave and heights are no issue then you can try out Go Ape! and the fabulous zip wire to the forest assault course in the trees!
A short drive away at the top of Bridge of Allan is the Wallace Monument a challenging set of stairs up to some spectacular views across Stirling, you get a great view of the city and the Castle.
There are a few stops on the way to the top explaining our history in this area and of course Wallace himself.
You can refuel in the cafe at the bottom.
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Monumento Nacional Wallace
Hillfoots RoadA short drive away at the top of Bridge of Allan is the Wallace Monument a challenging set of stairs up to some spectacular views across Stirling, you get a great view of the city and the Castle.
There are a few stops on the way to the top explaining our history in this area and of course Wallace himself.
You can refuel in the cafe at the bottom.
Once the capital of Scotland, Stirling and the Trossachs have immense historical significance. Robert the Bruce William Wallace the Battle of Bannockburn all happened within sight of this great castle!
The history is fascinating and the views are spectacular!
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Castelo de Stirling
Castle WyndOnce the capital of Scotland, Stirling and the Trossachs have immense historical significance. Robert the Bruce William Wallace the Battle of Bannockburn all happened within sight of this great castle!
The history is fascinating and the views are spectacular!
More of our fabulous history around The Bruce, it's not quite like Braveheart but it'san enjoyable visit to understand more of our fabulous history!
Robert the Bruce Statue
35 Borestone PlMore of our fabulous history around The Bruce, it's not quite like Braveheart but it'san enjoyable visit to understand more of our fabulous history!
Adventure
Best day out if you like monkeying around at height!
The zip wire is a thing of terror and bliss if you can draw breath to check the view.
Safety is paramount and the team have always been super safe and friendly.
Great day out!
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Go Ape Aberfoyle
Best day out if you like monkeying around at height!
The zip wire is a thing of terror and bliss if you can draw breath to check the view.
Safety is paramount and the team have always been super safe and friendly.
Great day out!
Great day out for all ages!
The animals are well looked after and usually in evidence. The sea lion show is very funny.
There is a cafe but even better there are bbqs available so you can
make your own.
The lemurs are great and the safari park staff are friendly and knowledgeable.
A great day out!
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Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park
Great day out for all ages!
The animals are well looked after and usually in evidence. The sea lion show is very funny.
There is a cafe but even better there are bbqs available so you can
make your own.
The lemurs are great and the safari park staff are friendly and knowledgeable.
A great day out!
Walking
Lovely local walk up to the Falls a local beauty spot which is about to have a new bridge fitted. A local spot of beauty with spectacular views from the track down to Stirling and North to Ben Ledi, the mountain at the end of Callander.
Decent shoes for walking are required as it can get muddy.
When the bridge is in place you can carry on up the path to the Scout Pool and weather permitting enjoy a dip.
Carrying on you can loop back by the road and if feeling fit go up over our Crags by the main or lower wood walk and or come back down into town.
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Bracklinn Falls Bridge
Lovely local walk up to the Falls a local beauty spot which is about to have a new bridge fitted. A local spot of beauty with spectacular views from the track down to Stirling and North to Ben Ledi, the mountain at the end of Callander.
Decent shoes for walking are required as it can get muddy.
When the bridge is in place you can carry on up the path to the Scout Pool and weather permitting enjoy a dip.
Carrying on you can loop back by the road and if feeling fit go up over our Crags by the main or lower wood walk and or come back down into town.
It's a mountain, it's beautiful, it's at the end of our wee town and it's a great climb with breathtaking views!
Accessed by car you can park at the Stank Car Park, walk or cycle out our cycle path or you can cut up the Bochastle walk which is still steep but less of an immediate incline until you are about a third of the way up and meet with the main path.
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Ben Ledi
It's a mountain, it's beautiful, it's at the end of our wee town and it's a great climb with breathtaking views!
Accessed by car you can park at the Stank Car Park, walk or cycle out our cycle path or you can cut up the Bochastle walk which is still steep but less of an immediate incline until you are about a third of the way up and meet with the main path.
An easier walk than Ben Ledi, very popular and reasonably easy.
Great views!
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Ben A'an
An easier walk than Ben Ledi, very popular and reasonably easy.
Great views!
Dropped off by a passing glacier a few thousand years ago Samson's Putting Stone has rich history and is situated just to the right of a Pictish Hill Fort which isa regular haunt for student of geography and archaeology.
A stones throwfrom Callander (if you were Samson) but a short walk along the cycle path then a left up the track at Bochastle and you can walk around and up to both the stone and the Fort
Keep going and you come down to a wee hump backed bridge at Invertrossachs Road and you can walk back into Callander and if you cross the red bridge going up to the Main St you will have done the route the locals call the 3 Bridges!
Great walk and not to challenging but good waterproof shoes recommended and midgie repellant required during the season!
Samson's Stone
A821Dropped off by a passing glacier a few thousand years ago Samson's Putting Stone has rich history and is situated just to the right of a Pictish Hill Fort which isa regular haunt for student of geography and archaeology.
A stones throwfrom Callander (if you were Samson) but a short walk along the cycle path then a left up the track at Bochastle and you can walk around and up to both the stone and the Fort
Keep going and you come down to a wee hump backed bridge at Invertrossachs Road and you can walk back into Callander and if you cross the red bridge going up to the Main St you will have done the route the locals call the 3 Bridges!
Great walk and not to challenging but good waterproof shoes recommended and midgie repellant required during the season!
Golf
For those who like to ruin a good walk then you couldn't do better than knocking a golf ballaround this lovely slightly hilly but beautiful course.
Views of Ben Ledi down the 18th are breathtaking and while there is currently no 19th hole it's a very short walk or drive to our Main St where the Crags Hotel or the Waverley Hotel await to refresh you.
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Callander Golf Club
Aveland RoadFor those who like to ruin a good walk then you couldn't do better than knocking a golf ballaround this lovely slightly hilly but beautiful course.
Views of Ben Ledi down the 18th are breathtaking and while there is currently no 19th hole it's a very short walk or drive to our Main St where the Crags Hotel or the Waverley Hotel await to refresh you.