Editing La Porte, California (section)

===Howland Flat and Poker Flat===
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About {{convert|12|mi|km}} outside La Porte, via the Port Wine Ridge Road in adjacent [[Sierra County, California|Sierra County]], lies the remains of the former gold mining town of Howland Flat.<ref>[https://www.passportintime.com/howland-flat-2010.html Howland Flat] Passport In Time USFS
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Also on Port Wine Ridge Road, and southwest of [[Mount Fillmore]], the ghost town of [[Grass Flat, California|Grass Flat]] is located. It is the site of extensive gold rush [[hydraulic mining]], with a dramatic and barren landscape still remaining.

The [[ghost town]] of Poker Flat is located on the Poker Flat OHV trail in the [[Plumas National Forest]].<ref>[https://explore.museumca.org/goldrush/dist-pokerflat.html Poker Flat] Oakland Museum of California
</ref> The last-standing structure of Poker Flat, the 1886 Scott House, stood until the winter of 2014–15, when it collapsed.

[[File:1874 CA Longboard Racing.png|thumb|Sierra Longboard Racing, 1874]]