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City Guides

The Hamptons Guide

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The Hamptons in summer is its own particular ecosystem—part beach town, part dinner-party circuit, part traffic jam, and navigating it well takes a little local knowledge. For this year's annual guide, we've organized everything by town (or, in some cases, clusters of smaller ones), because anyone who's spent a season out east knows you don't really bounce around: the drive from Southampton to East Hampton can stretch close to an hour, and you tend to settle into your corner of the world.

We've revisited the classics with a clear-eyed audit—what still earns its reputation, and what doesn't, and scouted the newcomers, from summer pop-ups to fresh openings worth building your time around. As always, the goop edit is unsparing: only the genuinely great makes it in. The result is our most comprehensive Hamptons guide yet, everything you need in one place, from where to go in a health emergency (Southampton Hospital) to the perfect matcha (Montauk General Store), to what to pack for a beach picnic (Round Swamp, duh), and which stretch of sand to claim. Consider yourself covered.

The Southampton and Water Mill Guide
The Sag Harbor Guide
The Bridgehampton Guide
The Sagaponack and Wainscott Guide
The East Hampton and Springs Guide
The Amagansett Guide
The Montauk Guide
The Shelter Island Guide
Getting to (and Around) the Hamptons
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