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It wasn’t just you: Too many people really were outside this weekend.

Normally, Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a news conference on Monday, “it would light up my heart,” to see tens of thousands of people enjoying California’s beaches on a gorgeous day.

But Mr. Newsom said that while the impulse to get outdoors was understandable, “we can’t see what we saw this weekend.”

So, he said, the state would enact what he described as “soft closures” of state parks: Their parking lots would be closed, but the parks themselves wouldn’t be blocked off completely.