Learn the makeup of this airport. The airport looks like a giant uppercase-H with some arms extending longer than others. At the middle bar of the H, you'll find not only the ticketing counters (relative to the ticketed sides' difference), but if you get through the TSA, you'll find a pathway between concourses B and C as well as D and E. Not only is there no longer a concourse A, but there's also ongoing work with closing it's famed #pdxcarpet hashtag.
Learn about the relationships between the concourses and the concourse walkway. Each concourse tends to be occupied by different airlines with several airlines taking up Concourses C and B. Delta takes up Concourse D, while United occupies Concourse E. Several other airlines take up B and C - each taking up the side longer strips of the capital H. At the joiner-point perpendicular to these longer strips (almost directly in back of the ticketing booths) lies a concourse walkway joining both sides together.
Look for easier access points to determine the entrances to this concourse walkway. At the entrance to the walkway coming from terminals B-C, you'll find a Sound Balance, Kiehls, and "The Market" with the bathrooms directly behind these. From the opposite side, you'll find that the nearest marker is the set of bathrooms near "The Country Cat" and "The Country Cat Market", although "Peet's Coffee" is just a little further down. "The Country Cat" and "The Country Cat Market" are two points closest to the concourse walkway - although they aren't the best. The best determiner is no longer present and is best described as being off to the one side of the up-ramp heading towards the Delta terminal in Concourse D.
Learn about the makeup of the Concourse Walkway. Two moving sidewalks with a slight end midway into the concourse where you can transfer to the other moving sidewalk or walk on the stationary walking areas. The Concourse Walkway is labeled by its full name via large signs on the beams overhead and can't possibly be missed.
Travel each walking path from gate-to-gate. If you need to, use the concourse walkway. In concourses C and D, gates come on both sides of the airport's walls with several additional gates at the endpoints (forming the top two sides of the H). However, due to the multi-lane travel path around the airport's front end (the bottom two sides of the H), the terminals and amenities form on only one outer side. Concourse B contains three gates - B1-B3, all of which are on the outer end. Concourse C contains gates twenty-three gates (odd numbers on the outer side and even numbers on the inner side with four gates at the very end. (C1-C23) Concourse D contains fifteen gates - odd numbers on the outermost and even-numbered ones on the inner with three gates at the tail end. (D1-D15) Concourse E contains five gates on the outer edge due to traffic flow leading to the airport taking up the area's inner area. (E1-E5)
Walk - do not run - in all walkways around this airport's concourses. Each hallway is long (as everyone in this airport has come to know), and there is a temptation to run, but you will make faster headway to get where you're going in time for your next flight if you walk. Those who run not only may end up trampling over others who follow directions, but also miss their connector flights and meet up anyway with walkers at their gates who arrived several minutes before. Even those who use moving walkways tend to lose time if they jog or move along briskly without running! Except for concourse B having no moving walkways, each of the other terminals has one or more moving walkways, and you can make up for lost time using these to your advantage. If you need to make up some lost time and would need to backtrack to get onto the moving platform, forgive the moving platform and walk briskly without stampeding any other walkers walking carefully among the concourse.
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