The 1969 Woodstock festival site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The designation applies to the former concert grounds near Bethel, New York, where Max Yasgur’s farm hosted the Woodstock Music and Art Fair from August 15 to 18, 1969. The site is associated with both social history and the history of performing arts and music.
The listing recognizes Woodstock as a major cultural event, not merely a famous concert. Its huge audience, countercultural ideals, influential performers, and lasting effect on American popular culture made the location historically significant decades after the festival ended.
A common mix-up is confusing the listing date with the festival year. Woodstock took place in 1969, while the National Register listing came nearly half a century later, on February 28, 2017. The preserved grounds are now associated with Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.