Surprising Facts About Woodstock Festival

It Was Briefly the Third Largest City in New York

The event was originally planned for around 50,000 people, it then became 200,000 when they were selling tickets, and turned out to be double that- 400,000 to 500,000 people showed up to the farm in Bethel, half a million were in attendance.

It Was Briefly the Third Largest City in New York

For those three days of the festival, the surge in population caused Bethel to become the third largest city in the whole state.

Not only were so many people gathered into one city, they were all mostly gathered on one single 600 acre piece of land.