Boy Scouts to Attempt World Record at Woodfield Mall for "Longest Pinewood Derby Track"

A local Boy Scouts of America council will attempt to set the world record this Sunday, June 22, at Woodfield Mall for “Longest Pinewood Derby Track.”

The current record, set by Boston Minuteman Council, Boy Scouts of America in 2012, stands at 320 feet long. Northwest Suburban Council hopes to capture the title with a track nearly twice as long. 

The event is open to the public and scheduled to run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Woodfield Mall’s Parking Lot G. Participants can bring their own derby cars or build one on-site that day. It costs $1 to race.

For more information please visit http://nwsc.doubleknot.com/event/guinness-book-of-world-record-setter/1545678. Participants can also register in-person beginning at 11 a.m. on Sunday. 

While at Woodfield Mall, be sure to visit the Boy Scouts of America Discovery Outpost, a first-of-its-kind recruitment and activity center, on the first floor next to Macy’s.

Boy Scouts of America provides the nation’s foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training, which helps young people be “Prepared. For Life.®” The Scouting organization is composed of nearly 2.5 million youth members between the ages of 7 and 21 and approximately 960,000 volunteers in local councils throughout the United States and its territories.