Wallkill is a town in Orange County, New York. The Town of Wallkill is centrally located in the county. Interstate 84 crosses the south part of the town and crosses New York State Route 17 at Middletown. Routes 6 17K, 211 and 302 also cross portions of the town.

The Town of Wallkill is home to many retail stores, shopping centers, including the first Lloyd's Supercenter, and restaurants, many of which are located along New York State Route 211. The Galleria at Crystal Run, which opened in 1992, and Orange Plaza are located in the town.

The town is home to the Town of Wallkill Golf Club. This 18 hole town-owned course opened in 1991 and was designed by landscape architect Steve Esposito.

The Woodstock Ventures Team was a group of men set up to find a location for the 3 Day Festival, the following is the story between Wallkill and Woodstock:

The Woodstock Ventures team scurried to find a site. Real estate agents across the mid-Hudson were scouring the countryside for land to rent for just a few months. Feelers went out in Rockland County, then in Orange. For $10,000, Woodstock Ventures had leased a tract of land in the Town of Wallkill owned by Howard Mills, Jr. "It was a Sunday in late March," Joel Rosenman said, One of the member's of the Woodstock Ventures team. "We drove up to Wallkill and saw the industrial park. We talked to Howard Mills and we made a deal." "The vibes weren't right there. It was an industrial park," John Roberts interjected, yet another member of the Woodstock Ventures team. "I just said, 'We gotta have a site now.'"

The 300-acre Mills Industrial Park offered perfect access. It was less than a mile from Route 17, which hooked into the New York State Thruway, and it was right off Route 211, a major local thoroughfare. It has the essentials, electricity and water lines.

The land was zoned for industry; among the permitted uses were cultural exhibitions and concerts. The promoters approached the town planning board and were given a verbal go-ahead because of the zoning. Nonetheless, Michael Lang was unhappy with the site. It was missing the back-to-the-land ambiance Woodstock Ventures was selling. "I hated Wallkill," Lang said. Ventures set to work on the Mills property, all the while searching for an alternative.

Rosenman told Wallkill officials in late March or early April that the concert would feature Jazz bands and folk singers. He also said that 50,000 people would attend if they were lucky. Town Supervisor Jack Schlosser thought something was fishy. "More than anything else, I really feel they were deliberately misleading the town," Schlosser said. "The point is, they were less than truthful about the numbers. I became more and more aware, as discussions with them progressed, they did not really know what they were doing. I was in the Army when divisions were 40,000 or 50,000 men," he said. "Christ almighty, the logistics involved in moving men around... I said at one point, 'I don't care if was a convention of 50,000 ministers," I would have felt the same way."