<P> The film was shot on location in Bass Lake, California, a small resort town near Yosemite National Park over three weeks in October 1987 . </P> <P> Ducey's Bass Lake Lodge, a rustic 1940s resort in Bass Lake, was featured as Wally and Juanita's Perk's Pine Lodge . The Loon's Nest vacation cabin, built as a set, was designed to match the style of Ducey's existing cabins . </P> <P> The Great Outdoors earned a mixed response from critics . Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 40% based on 15 reviews . </P> <P> Janet Maslin of The New York Times reported that the film did not have enough collective energy to light a campfire in her review . Kevin Thomas of The Los Angeles Times called the film as "a crass, blah comedy about summer vacation perils" and said he was surprised the film got made at all . He described the end credits sequence where Aykroyd and Candy dance to Wilson Pickett's "Land of a 1,000 Dances" as the only genuine fun and energy in the entire film . "Imagine that it's raining cats and dogs and you're locked in a north woods cabin for weeks with the people you like least, and you'll pretty much have a feel for what it's like to sit through this movie," said Hal Hinson of The Washington Post . </P>

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