Samson's Putting Stone

An extraordinary man-carved boulder.

It is not a glacial erratic, there is an almost identical stone some 25 miles away at Crieff, (mica schist on conglomerate) which is at the centre of 29 ancient sites and has a carved footprint and wa...

Great views of Callander and surrounding area

A 2km roundtrip from the car park by the river and slightly shorter if use the car park at the start of the walk. The majority of the walk is fairly easy going, however the last part from the rob roy...

Worth the climb

Whilst on a walk from Callandar to Leny Falls we took the steep path up to Samson’s Stone. We were rewarded with superb view and a great place for a picnic.stunning views on all directions and well w...

I'm still standing!

Decided to look for this stone whilst out visiting in the local area yesterday (29/4/17). We parked the car at Kilmahog - there is a car park at either side of the road, we parked on the river side. ...

Blew away our Hogmanay heads.

Lovely easy walk along the river. Steeper shorter part of walk up the hill to the stone. Lovely views back to Callander. Nice length of walk to stone and back to Callander for some refreshments.