Pueblo Grande was perhaps the largest and most politically prominent Hohokam village in lower Salt River valley. Its platform mound was the largest of any built by the Hohokam, standing 4 m high and covering an area equivalent to an American football field. Julian Hayden's renowned excavations in the 1930s on the top and around the platform mound revealed an architecturally crowded ceremonial precinct. Highway-related excavations in the 1990s across the eastern third of the village uncovered numerous habitation areas that were continuously occupied for 200 years or more. Together, these two projects provide a rich accounting of the Hohokam Classic period in the lower Salt River valley.

A 90-minute tour of Pueblo Grande Museum on Sunday morning will include a meander through the permanent inside exhibits that display various aspects of Hohokam life and culture, a walk around and up unto the platform mound, and a short stroll across the desert landscape to view life-size reconstructions of a Hohokam pithouse and Classic period compound rooms, as well as a reconstructed ballcourt. The tour will be led by Dave Abbott, who directed the ceramic analysis for the 1990s excavations at Pueblo Grande.