Rolling Prairie is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kankakee Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, United States.

More settlers arrived, built cabins and named the settlement "Nauvoo".

[4] The name of "Rolling Prairie", descriptive of the undulating terrain, was later adopted by one of the railroad companies operating through the town.

Rolling Prairie is located in northeastern LaPorte County in the northeast part of Kankakee Township.

Indiana State Road 2 passes just south of Rolling Prairie, leading southwest 7 miles (11 km) to La Porte, the county seat.