If you live in The Plains, you already know the summer is not paced by the calendar so much as by what is happening at 5089 Old Tavern Road. Great Meadow's gates open and the village fills. They close and Main Street settles back into its short, specific roster of restaurants and shops. The polo schedule is the metronome.
What is different about 2026 is how full the field has gotten between the headline weekends.