Eastern Plumas County’s diverse economy and growing workforce make it an ideal location for business development. The city is primed for steady growth due to the steady increase in tourism over the past five years. We have economic outlook plans to improve hospitality, education, health care, research and tech industries in our region.
With public infrastructure improvements in the works and expansions in these industries expected in coming years, the economic outlook is strong.
For more information on economic development, check out the City of Portola’s website, or attend an open Chamber of Commerce meeting every second Wednesday of the month at 8am at The Chamber of Commerce office.
Last week, I was driving on a country road through a sun-dried valley where the high desert climbs into the mountains. This is the so-called Lost Sierra, the swath of mountains, rivers and forest north of Truckee and Lake Tahoe, and true to its name, when the sagebrush turned into pine, I felt far away from everywhere.
But then the trees cleared, and suddenly a golf course appeared, impossibly green, like a manicured mirage in the middle of the mountains.
I’d arrived in Graeagle, a small town that’s little more than a cluster of quaint red cabins and white trim and might possibly be the happiest place in the Lost Sierra. Those cabins have been here, looking exactly as they do today — minus the fresh coat of paint — for a century.
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