It was organized. Then people started sneaking in by the 10s of thousands. No level of organization can deal with that. It was just supposed to be a regular music and arts festival, they were happening all the time then. And then all the hippies in 2 time zones showed up. No one’s really sure why. It just caught the crowd.
One thing is for sure...those hippies had no idea what a weather forecast was.
There was an estimated million people on the road heading to Woodstock who never made it because the police and National Guard shut down all the road leading there miles away.
For years after Woodstock when the field of Max Yasgur dairy farm was plowed up they would find thousands of old blankets and trash and clothes