First Coast YMCA - Winston Family YMCA

The Winston Family YMCA is the First Coast YMCA branch at 221 Riverside Avenue, on the river between downtown and Riverside. Google’s operational listing is titled Winston Family YMCA and matches that address and phone (904) 355-1436, with a stored snapshot of 4.6 from 1,586 reviews — one review above the older 1,585-count card. That is a large, strongly positive gym-and-family-center sample. Stay Safe Jax does not mix this pin with YMCA Tiger Academy on Bagley Road. First Coast YMCA’s public branch page (cited here only as a fact source, not linked) describes a multi-floor building: a 12,000-square-foot fitness floor with an indoor track, the Newton Family Aquatic Center with a heated six-lane 25-yard lap pool plus a warmer lesson pool, a Jacksonville Jaguars gymnasium, group-exercise studios, locker rooms, KidZone child watch, and a cafe. Athletic-Minded Traveler’s downtown write-up called it a roughly 70,000-square-foot center about a mile from the Omni, with a day-pass price in the mid-teens when that guide was current. Prices change. Google’s hours snapshot is Monday through Thursday 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Friday 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pool and KidZone hours are shorter than the building hours; the branch page has listed weekday KidZone gaps and earlier Sunday pool closing. Confirm those desks before you bring children. Google marks wheelchair parking, a wheelchair entrance, and a wheelchair restroom. Stay Safe Jax did not inspect locker rooms. A 4.6 from more than 1,500 Google reviews is the kind of score busy members leave when equipment, the river view, and staff are the story. Recurring complaints on third-party gym directories are ordinary: weekend hours that end at 5:00 p.m., crowded locker rooms, and the usual YMCA mix of serious lifters and family swim. None of that is a current sourced warning. Open flags stay at 0. No Yelp card is stored. Residents looking for a Riverside education-adjacent family facility — swim lessons, youth sports, before-and-after care — should use this listing for the correct 221 Riverside Avenue branch, stored Google 4.6, and the 5:00 a.m. weekday open. It is not Tiger Academy and not the Community First Igloo.