Park amenities include multi-use fields, tennis courts, a swimming pool, a playground, picnic areas, a lake, and trails.

[1] The lake at Murphey Candler Park offers fishing, and it is home to largemouth bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, and channel catfish.

Fearing a dam failure, DeKalb county drained and dredged the lake to make repairs.

The county required the newly constructed Perimeter Mall to redirect its water flow away from the lake.

A few years later in another flash flood the Peachtree Dunwoody Road bridge further downstream on Nancy Creek was washed out.

A federal grant was required to repair and upgrade the Ashford Dunwoody Road bridge to withstand floods.

Atlanta Colts Youth Association (ACYA) was established at Murphey Candler Park by Robert Johnson in 1965.

The boundaries include most of northeast DeKalb County, Dunwoody, Chamblee, and Doraville, and parts of Tucker and Briarcliff.

The Dynamo Swim Club accomplishments since the club`s inception in 1964 at Murphey Candler Pool have been extensive from winning state, regional and national team titles to setting national age group records to achieving American records and world ranked times, Dynamo swimmers have enjoyed success at every level of competitive swimming.

When Dekalb county let the Murphey Candler pool fall into disrepair, and modified the pool so that it was no longer an Olympic size, the Dynamos relocated to the 1996 Olympic training and swim center located in Chamblee, GA. Murphey Candler Park is also the name of the residential neighborhood surrounding the park.