Sleep outside the park at either Sossusvlei Lodge or the self-catering Desert Camp, and riseearly to catch the vivid orange dunefields at sunrise the next morning.
Riseearly the next morning and paddle 17 miles southeast to Waterloo village, located on a section of the Cayuga-Seneca Canal that links two of the state's Finger Lakes -- Cayuga and Seneca -- to the Erie Canal.