And a summer weekday of heat, put behind, made drinking of the first priority.
We have visited mostly on weekends and summer weekdays; the park tends to be busiest from noon to 3, when you might have to wait 20 to 25 minutes.
The camp groups, a mainstay of summer weekdays, have piled into their yellow buses and driven away.
On summer weekdays there is almost nobody in Far Western national forests.
As many as 75,000 people come to the two beaches on a summer weekday.
On a lazy summer weekday afternoon, the store was busy.
Officials said the number of tourists today was expected to be about 10,000, typical for a summer Saturday and about half the number who visit on a summer weekday.
Jones Beach State Park expects 50,000 visitors, 20,000 more than on a normal summer weekday.
At Main Beach only and on summer weekdays only, visitors without permits can pay $15 to park for the day.
It was sufficiently successful to be run on all weekends and summer weekdays until in 1936 it was a daily working.