Grand Bahama is the second-most populous island, behind New Providence. It has one of the largest container ports in the world, as well as important cultural sites such as the Garden of the Groves, Port Lucaya and Lucayan National Park and Hiking Trail.

Grand Bahama was once home to a number of logging camps and ports linked by railway. When the Hawksbill Creek Agreement was signed in 1955 establishing the city of Freeport, a free-trade zone, the logging industry left the island. Prior to this, train tracks ran across Grand Bahama connecting the forests that covered the island to the port of Pine Ridge between 1945 and 1955. Pine Ridge became Freeport.