A helicopter had to be flown in to a remote part of Abbotsford Friday to help disperse the crowd at a massive party that also saw the window of a police cruiser smashed in.

It’s a miracle that nobody was seriously hurt at the gathering, which was well underway at 10 p.m. in the Majuba Hill area of southeast Abbotsford., according to police spokesman Const. Ian MacDonald.

“To get to this area, which is a real mix of Crown land and private property, it’s a fairly rugged path,” MacDonald said. “If something happens that requires first responders to get there to help, it’s challenging, to say the least…You can imagine trying to get a BC Ambulance up there.”

MacDonald said residents in the area, which is close to the Canada-U.S. border, called police after noticing dozens of vehicles parked along the bottom of the hill.

Both Abbotsford police and Chilliwack RCMP responded, sending an Air 1 helicopter and about 25 officers to the site to break it up.

They found hundreds of youth in their mid-teens to early 20s partying at a run-down cabin, raising immediate concerns.

“Five hundred [people] was the estimate and that was at 10:30,” MacDonald said. “Word would have continued to spread through social media. I don’t think it would’ve been out of the ordinary that that thing could have had 1,000 to 1,500 people there.”

MacDonald said the cabin and other structures in the area can be used for industrial purposes by landholders, and aren’t meant to hold the massive number of youth that were there Friday.

“Because it is remote, because it is used for the terrain that surrounds it, we’re not talking about structures that are built to house or support a whole bunch of people. In some cases they’re makeshift, in some cases they’re dilapidated,” he said.

Other than some minor fights, everyone in attendance was fairly well behaved, according to one partygoer.

“It looked like everybody was pretty wasted, and if not, it looked like everybody was having a pretty good time,” said 19-year-old Anthony Van der Linden, who arrived just as a helicopter circled overhead. “I parked at the bottom and I started walking up to meet friends, and it was just cop cars coming down one after the other.”

Despite the rear window of a police cruiser getting smashed, MacDonald said no arrests were made and no injuries were reported.

He said the spot is known to many young people in the Fraser Valley.

Partygoers used the hashtag #ProjectChiliwack to promote the event on social media.

One person posted a video of the helicopter arriving to break up the party, while others shared videos of the event on Instagram and Twitter.

MacDonald said social media may have helped contribute to the party getting out of control.

“There’s this weird thing where everything people engage in has to be epic,” he said. “It has to be the type of time that is so over the top that everybody’s going to be talking about it for weeks, but striving to be epic sometimes bypasses the potential to be tragic.”

He said police did not encounter anyone who had a definitive right to be on the property.

It's the latest out-of-control party incident Abbotsford police have dealt with in February.

Two weeks ago, a party at the home of a 14-year-old boy ended in an apparent assault after the gathering escalated. Police arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the incident.