The Mirror Lake beach in Lake Placid is seen in June. (Enterprise photo — Catherine Moore)

While people are welcome to swim at their own risk at countless Adirondack swimming holes, local municipal beaches, with lifeguards, are still not open.

When they do open, there will be all kinds of new state-mandated rules to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Town of Tupper Lake officials met Wednesday night and plan to open the public beach at Little Wolf Pond to swimmers on Friday, June 26, according to town Supervisor Patti Littlefield. Hours will be 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week.

“We have our opening plan all set and are just working on details at this point,” she said. “Everything is falling into place nicely.”

The village of Saranac Lake will need about 10 staff members to reopen its Lake Colby beach this summer. As of Monday evening it had hired four lifeguards and was working on two more.

“We’re still struggling to get enough people to open the beach,” village Manager John Sweeney said at Monday’s Board of Trustees meeting.

Clerk Kareen Tyler said the village could probably get away with having just six lifeguards if it reduces the size of the beach area to hold a maximum of 62 people, but Sweeney said the village would also need staff to be what he called “greeters” — who would welcome people to the beach area through a single entry point and explain the new rules — as well as workers to do state-mandated cleaning.

The town of North Elba was also struggling to hire lifeguards, but now it has the staff it needs for the Mirror Lake beach in Lake Placid. It can’t reopen, however, until it receives a permit from the state Department of Health, town Park District Clerk Chelsie Geesler said Wednesday.

She declined to talk about what the beach would look like under the new state rules.

“We don’t want to make any comments until all our ducks are in a row,” she said.

In May, New York state issued a six-page list of 44 mandatory requirements, plus 19 “recommended best practices,” for lake and ocean beaches to reopen during the pandemic. The number of people allowed on the beach at once must be cut in half. The same goes for rest rooms and changing areas, and these must also be cleaned and disinfected regularly. People not from the same household must be 6 feet apart, and there must be 10 feet between households’ blanket and chairs set-ups. Masks are required for employees and for anyone who is less than 6 feet apart from people from different households. Hand sanitizer stations must be on site, people can’t share beach items except within a household, and pick-up games of volleyball and the like cannot involve multiple households. And those are just some of the rules.