With a handful of beaches in the region reopening for Memorial Day weekend, Central New Yorkers flocked to beaches, which have taken several precautions to help protect them from the coronavirus.

"You go through admissions, that's how we really control the process, obviously you're going to talk to many of our staff here, our employees looking for masks, giving direction,” said Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon while visiting the beach at Oneida Shores Park.

The beach is taking numerous precautions including operating at a limited capacity, taking temperatures of guests entering and receiving information for possible contact tracing.

Despite some of the restrictions, visitors say they’re excited to be back on the sand.

"Just to get nice and cool, stay away from people pretty much, not to be locked up in the house, and just enjoy the summer and try to be safe,” said North Syracuse resident Steve Abreu.

McMahon says the county can get insight from the beach’s first weekend.

"We'll learn how to do it here, this is an easier park to control at first. Certainly we'll be looking at opening up Jamesville in the next couple of weeks, and take the lessons we learn here and implement them there," McMahon said.

Other beaches in the region, like the one in Sylvan Beach, have not reopened, but crowds still packed the sand this weekend.