<P> Chicagoan Chester `` Chet '' Ripley , his wife , Connie , and their two sons , Buckley `` Buck '' and Ben , are on vacation at a lake resort in Pechoggin , Wisconsin during the summer . All is going as planned until Connie 's sister , Kate , Kate 's investment broker husband , Roman Craig , and their twin daughters , Mara and Cara , crash the vacation . </P>
where does the great outdoors movie take place
a lake resort in Pechoggin , Wisconsin