La Porte is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plumas County, California, United States.

[3] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.5 square miles (12 km2), all of its land.

Completed in 1961, the nearby Little Grass Valley Reservoir is a popular summer water sports area.

[8] Federally, La Porte is in California's 1st congressional district, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa.

The Rabbit Creek House had a Hotel, trading post and two barns for horses.

Busy during the Gold Rush, the site of the Rabbit Creek Hotel is a California Historical Landmark No.

[14][15] During the first year of the Civil War some residents wanted to show support for the Rebellion.

[17] Also on Port Wine Ridge Road, and southwest of Mount Fillmore, the ghost town of Grass Flat is located.

It is the site of extensive gold rush hydraulic mining, with a dramatic and barren landscape still remaining.

[18] The last-standing structure of Poker Flat, the 1886 Scott House, stood until the winter of 2014–15, when it collapsed.

Skiing may have been practiced in Rabbit Creek as early as 1851 by Hamilton Ward and James Murray using improvised barrel staves.

[20][21] This longboard racing association was founded by Creed Haymond to arrange the local Norwegian snow-shoe club tournaments at Onion Valley,[22] Port Wine,[23] St. Louis, Pine Grove,[24] Howland Flat,[25] Newark,[26] Gibsonville,[27] and others.

[28][29] California Historical Landmarks 723 and 724 note La Porte as a Pioneer Ski Area of America.

[30] Plumas National Forest Service placed an informational placard atop nearby Lexington Hill, replacing a 1991 Alturas Snowshoe Club marker which commemorated the start of organized downhill ski racing in the western hemisphere.