Woodstock will be celebrated on its 50th anniversary, but it won’t be your hippie uncle’s trample-the-fences concert.
But officials concerned about traffic jams and crowding are strictly limiting access to the famous field now maintained by the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Visitors will need “travel passes” to drive to the site Thursday through Sunday, and only people with tickets for evening events can get those passes. There will be checkpoints.
Woodstock organizers were denied permits a month before the ’69 show, too — that time in Wallkill, New York. Lang found the Bethel site with weeks to go. No such kismet this time. Eleventh-hour plans to stage a free concert in Maryland fizzled. “It’s like hallowed ground for us rock-and-rollers,” said 56-year-old Bill Murtha, of Troy, New York, during a visit this week. “It’s like Gettysburg. You can feel the vibe of what happened.” The site went establishment after the not-for-profit Bethel Woods center bought up the hillside and surrounding land in the late ’90s. A Woodstock-and-’60s-themed museum sits atop the fenced-in field and there’s an outdoor amphitheater over the hill where Santana and Fogerty will play on separate nights.
Though access to the field is usually open, Bethel Woods is setting restrictions next weekend to avoid any whiff of Woodstock-style chaos. Fedun said the site already expects big crowds of ticket holders and the country roads can only handle so much traffic. Local officials expect up to 100,000 visitors in the area from Thursday through Sunday.
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